Jetpack Compose for Android Developers

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Select this course and explore the basics of Jetpack Compose — a modern UI tool developed by Google for creating native Android UI with Material Design in Kotlin.
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With Compose, building a beautiful UI and creating neat animations becomes an easier task since it is based on the already familiar Kotlin APIs. The declarative approach of this tool allows you to reduce the time required to implement any ideas in the application interface, as well as achieve more concise and clear code. Will this course, you will get a basic introduction to Jetpack Compose and create your first simple apps with it.
You will discover how to:

  • Create beautiful UIs in Kotlin from scratch;
  • Navigate the app with Jetpack Compose Navigation;
  • Handle and hoist state;
  • Create custom reusable composables.
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Akbar Hamaminatu avatar
Akbar Hamaminatu
1 week ago
The course provided a solid foundation in Jetpack Compose for Android development. The modular approach and modern UI practices were particularly helpful. It seems like a great starting point for those looking to transition from the traditional View system.
Charles Perry avatar
Charles Perry
3 months ago
Learn only a fraction of the composables available for developing an app yet it seems so much. No course can cover it all. The rest I can learn by writing programs but I have learned the most used composables. I also learned how to write my own composables. The course was great.
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sedthecursed
6 months ago
This course teaches the basis of Compose UI, which is more modern and much simpler than the View UI.

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