Android Developer with Kotlin

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Learn about UI design, data storage, dynamic screen building, and leverage the capabilities of Android Studio to start your career in mobile app industry.
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Android controls over 70% of the mobile OS market. It’s free and open-source, with a new version packed with all the latest features released each year. Select this course whether you have experience with Kotlin or not, and want to learn how to work with Android Studio to develop compelling, professional-quality applications — a highly demanded skill globally. 
You will discover how to:

  • create and run an Android app, either on an emulator or a real device;
  • design UIs;
  • store data locally or access it from remote sources;
  • build dynamic UIs and navigation graphs with Fragments;
  • use tools like Java and Kotlin libraries;
  • work with professional development tools like Android Studio.

Topics covered by this course

Programming languages
99 topics
Mobile
86 topics
Software development foundations
81 topics
Algorithms and data structures
15 topics
Math
9 topics
Cybersecurity
4 topics
System administration and DevOps
2 topics

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You already know the theory. Now it's time to code like you do at work—in a professional IDE, with real project constraints, solving problems that actually matter. Welcome to software engineering as it should be.
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Most developers waste months learning random concepts without seeing how they connect. Our interactive Knowledge Map fixes this. It shows exactly how every programming concept relates to others, helping you build a structured mental model of coding.
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Your peers think Hyperskill rocks

Mohammed Khalil avatar
Mohammed Khalil
4 weeks ago
It did help me learn Android development, but it uses an old User Interface format with very little mention of the new one. Also, the topic order can be very bad sometimes, though it did not affect me much since I had a bit of experience before.
Kyle Jaesu Akuya
3 months ago
This course was intense but I learned a lot about Kotlin and Android Development.
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Akbar Hamaminatu
9 months ago
I learn about UI design, data storage, dynamic screen building, and leverage the capabilities of Android Studio to start your career in mobile app industry.

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