Description
Have you ever seen a beautiful screen and wondered how it was designed or read a hundred lines of neatly formatted code and wondered how it works? This course aspires to seamlessly blend
app design
with
android development
giving you the complete picture. Learn how to
design
and
code
a fully working, professionally designed Android app from
Photoshop
to
Playstore
under
16 hours
.
We build an app called
BucketDrops
in the series which lets you keep track of life goals. The course begins with app design instructed by
Gary
and covers the following:
Photoshop
basics
Illustrator
basics
Principles of
Logo
Design
Process to design the app mockup screens
We then dive into Android Programming using
Android
Studio
instructed by Vivek Ramesh "
Vivz
" which covers the following topics
Basic components of Android (Activities, Services, Intents, Fragments, and BroadcastReceivers
Drawables
and selectors
Efficient Image Loading With
Glide
Fragments
,
FragmentManager
and
FragmentTransaction
Realm
database and queries
RecyclerView
, sections, animation and swipe to delete
Styles and themes
Custom
Widgets
and Views
Running periodic tasks with
IntentService
,
AlarmManager
and BootReceiver
Reverse
engineering
an APK file
Proguard
Publishing on Google Play
Follow along as Gary Simon and Vivek Ramesh "Vivz" walk you through the entire process of designing and coding a production-ready android app.
Prerequisites
You have Photoshop and Illustrator installed on your system.
You know a bit of Object Oriented Programming (Any language will do but Java is preferable)
Materials included
Assets wherever appropriate
Presentations, keynotes and slides wherever appropriate
Document containing GitHub code links attached on lecture 39
Videos are enabled for offline access
Who are these guys?
Gary Simon
has been a professional designer for over 15 years and has dealt with over a thousand clients on a variety of design and development projects. He owns a popular design business, along with its associated youtube presence which is one of the most popular design channels with almost 100,000 subscribers.
Vivz
has been a java developer for nearly a decade and is the founder of a channel called slidenerd that deals with mobile programming on YouTube with almost 100,000 subscribers
Between the two, millions upon millions of aspiring designers and coders alike have benefited from their instructions.
Who should take this course?
Anyone that's interested in designing and developing apps for android. You can be an absolute beginner and follow along. You can also be an intermediate/advanced designer or coder and still gain valuable insights.
So if you're ready to start designing and coding amazing android apps, let's get started!
Requrirements
Requirements
Android Studio
Adobe Photoshop CC (if you're following the design portion).
Adobe Illustrator CC (if you're following the design portion).