Android Development Essential Training: 4 Working with Data

Course details

Do you develop Android apps? Are you wondering how to get started or wondering how to improve? This series of courses covers the essentials you must know to develop, design, and manage a native Android application. In this course, the fourth part in a four-part series, instructor Annyce Davis focuses on data, with hands-on challenges to check your understanding. Annyce explains the various types of data processing available in Android. She shows you how to package static data in JSON files, to make it easier to work with data in your application. Annyce steps through using LiveData objects, HTTP clients, a Retrofit interface, and more to get data from a web service. She discusses how you can use a RecyclerView to display different types of data in your app, then concludes by walking you through ways to display data that a user selects.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Developing data-driven apps
02 - What you should know
03 - Following along with the course

1. Package Static Data in JSON Files

04 - Model an entity in a Kotlin data class
05 - Read files from resources
06 - Read files from assets
07 - Parse JSON strings with Moshi
08 - Map JSON and class property names
09 - Challenge - Show me the data
10 - Solution - Show me the data

2. Get Data from a Web Service

11 - Share data with LiveData objects
12 - Explore HTTP clients
13 - Add Retrofit dependencies
14 - Define a Retrofit interface
15 - Retrieve remote data with Retrofit

3. Display Data in a RecyclerView

16 - Explore RecyclerViews
17 - Add a RecyclerView to a fragment
18 - Create a RecyclerView item layout
19 - Create a RecyclerView adapter class
20 - Bind data in a RecyclerView ViewHolder
21 - Display images dynamically with Coil
22 - Challenge - Random pics
23 - Solution - Random pics

4. Display Selected Data Items

24 - Handle RecyclerView click events
25 - Navigate to a detail fragment
26 - Pass data in a shared ViewModel
27 - Challenge - Lights, camera, action
28 - Solution - Lights, camera, action

Conclusion

29 - Next steps

Android Development Essential Training: 4 Working with Data

Authors

Annyce Davis