UI Development in Android 🧞‍♂️

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👨🏻‍💻Who is this for?

This course is for Android developers who want to learn the design concepts behind the existing Android UI toolkit. How to make custom Views in old concepts and their drawbacks, and why to choose Jetpack Compose for making UI in Android.

🧩Covered concepts

• Android UI Toolkit
• View and ViewGroup
• Drawbacks of existing Android Toolkit

✅Prerequisites for this Course?

• Android Developer Guidelines

ANDROID DEVELOPER GUIDELINES

🧞‍♂️Let’s break down the existing Android UI toolkit and how Jetpack Compose offers a better way to build UIs.

Imagine the current Android UI system like a bunch of Lego bricks. These bricks are like the basic building blocks (Views) that you can snap together to form more complex shapes (Views and ViewGroups). Each Lego brick has its own properties, like color and size, that define how it looks.