Android Development Learning Path

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2 min readDec 16, 2019

A Complete Learning path for Android Developer

I am Amit Shekhar, Co-Founder @ Outcome School, and have been continuously getting requests on different channels to help with the learning path for Android Developers. So, I decided to answer this and help learners. I am sure this is going to help many developers who are willing to become better Android Developers.

You just need to follow the following path for learning Android Development.

Let’s become friends on Twitter, Linkedin, Github, Quora, and Facebook.

You can find the Roadmap for Android Developer here: Android Developer Roadmap

Let's get started

Programming

Java
Kotlin

Android Studio

Android Studio IDE Overview
Project Structure — Java/Kotlin, XML, .gradle files

Android Component

Activity — Activity Lifecycle, Tasks & Back Stack
Service
Broadcast Receiver
Content Provider

Intents

Types of Intent - Implicit, Explicit
Intent Filter

Static User Interface

View — Button, ImageView, TextView, EditText, and etc
ViewGroup - LinearLayout, RelativeLayout, FrameLayout, ConstraintLayout

Dynamic User Interface

RecyclerView
ViewPager
Spinner

CustomView

Canvas
Bitmap
Paint

UI Resources

Drawables
String
Styles

Fragments

Fragment Lifecycle
Fragment Manager

Support User Interface

ProgressBar
Dialogs
Toast & Snackbar

Storage

Shared Preferences
File Systems
Database — RoomDB

Build

Gradle
Debug / Release Configuration

Threading

Threads
Handler / Looper

Debugging

Memory profiling
Logging
Systrace
Exceptions
Error Handling

Memory Leak

Detecting and Fixing Memory Leaks
Context

3rd Party Library

Image Loading - Glide, Picasso
Dependency Injection - Dagger
Networking - Fast Android Networking Library, Retrofit
MultiThreading - RxJava, Coroutines. Learn Kotlin Coroutines from here.

Data Format

JSON — GSON
Flat Buffer
Protocol Buffer

Android Jetpack

Foundation Components — AppCompat, Android KTX, Multidex
Architecture Components — LiveData, ViewModel, DataBinding, Paging, Work Manager, Navigation
Behaviour Components - Download Manager, Media Playback, Notification, Permissions, Preference, Sharing, Slice
UI Component - Animation & Transition, Android Auto, Emoji, Palette, Android TV, Android Wear

Architecture

MVVM
MVI
MVP

Unit Testing

Local Unit Testing
Instrumentation Testing

Firebase

FCM
Crashlytics
Analytics
Remote Config
App Indexing
Dynamic Link

Security

Encrypt / Decrypt
Proguard
R8

App Release

.keystore file
App Bundle
Playstore

If you need any help during your learning, do not hesitate to reach out to me via different channels: Twitter, Linkedin, Github, Quora, and Facebook.

Prepare yourself for Android Interview: Android Interview Questions

Thanks, and have a wonderful journey ahead.

Amit Shekhar

Co-Founder @ Outcome School

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