Top 5 Free Resources to Learn Android Development using Kotlin

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Hey developers 👋,

I’m back with another post. In the last post, we talk about the popularity of Kotlin. In this article, I’ll share courses that will insanely clear your every single concept of Kotlin with Android App Development.

There are vast resources available over the Internet but it little tricky to find the best one. As a newbie, you’re merely searching which one is best! The cycle of searching the best courses never ends, you just go on and end up without building a single small app. Sometimes even you get in the trap, how to become Zero to Hero in Kotlin, you pay a few bucks purchasing the course, and in the return, you not learning the language just copying and pasting the syntax from someone’s videos to your IDE. Times go on and you look forward to developing apps but you probably failed. The misery you get that time is inevitable. You get frustrated. You left the field and give up.

In this article, I will suggest only those resources that clear our base concepts, mean to say we have to strengthen our fundamentals to use our language as a tool thoroughly.
All Internet is flooded with things you want but choosing among the best may be a tricker as well as hectic tasks for you.
There are couples of YouTube channel who teaches to clearing your concepts, but it will be more exciting if courses are developed by Google. We all need to clear our concept. This article is not limited to just link of those resources but I give a reason why you’ll go through it. In my post, generally, you’ll find I recommend primarily use of Udacity over any other platform. I found Udacity provide their course with the collaboration of big tech giants like Google, AWS, Microsoft, Facebook. I assume you already know people at this place are great Engineers. They clear your concept by taking a small practical example from a thing that happens around you.

Okay, without wasting any more time let’s jump to the list of courses.

1. Udacity Kotlin Bootcamp for Programmers This course is developed with the collaboration with Google. In this course, the Instructor starts the course with a very basic concept. If you’re already familiar with any other language like C, C++, Java, Python, you’ll find it very easy to learn as well as interesting too. If you’re new to the programming world you have to struggle a little bit. But you will learn this course for sure. The major skills you learn during this course are Kotlin Basics, Functions, Classes, Generic Classes, Functional Manipulation.
2. Kotlin for Android Developers This course is for those who already very familiar with Java and have worked with Android Apps in past and seeking to learn Kotlin. This course will save your time by instructing features of Kotlin programming language and how its inoperable quality helps you. This course is for experienced Java programmers. And if you wish to start with scratch go with Kotlin Course for Programmers, highly recommended.
3. Developing Android Apps Using Kotlin In this course, you’ll actually learn how to develop an Android App using Kotlin. This course is also developed by Google. The best part is, you’ll learn how to build real Android apps using modern app architecture. You’ll learn Android Jetpack components such as Room for databases, Work Manager for background processing, Navigation Component, and many more. Also, you’ll learn to develop app with the help of APIs. Before jumping, into this course is highly recommended you must have prior knowledge of Kotlin otherwise you’ll suffer a lot.
4. Advance Android With Kotlin This course teaches you exactly industry-level projects. In this you’ll major learn Notifications implementation in your App, Advanced Graphics it basically means you can create custom views for your app like Paint app, Animation in your app, Google Map after learning you’ll able to build an app like Uber probably, Testing it is important to learn as Android Developer, Firebase also. Every course is in the sequential form so follow along with it.
5. Android Developer Codelabs This is official Codelabs. Codelabs are basically where you get some starter code to start with. Reading step by step tutorial and implementing on its own. But you’ll find it really interesting. To learn something in small time, Codelabs are best option. In codelab, you’l find from Kotlin Basics to Advance Android Development.

If you follow the order in the sequential form, I’ll guarantee you’ll able to make the Apps you imagined. Even able to land good jobs. The most important all the courses are free. You don’t have to loose your pocket to learn from Google Experts.

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