Google publishes free and paid Android courses on Udacity
If you want to learn Android programming, you have lots of options. The Internet is full of free resources that promise to teach you the ins and outs of Java and Android programming.
If you are the visual learner, you may find YouTube courses like Derek Banas' Android Development for Beginners the most suitable choice to get started.
Other options include browsing the official Android Developers website, buying Android programming books, or using tutorials published on other sites.
Google announced today that it has published Android courses on the online learning site Udacity. Some of the courses are free provided that you sign up for a free Udacity account first while others are paid.
Free Courses
Android Development for Beginners- A four week course that teaches absolute beginners the basics of Android and Java programming. It is an excellent introductory course to get started.- Android Basics: User Interface - First course in the Android Nanodegree program that features designing the first layout in Android.
Advanced Android App Development- A six week course that walks you through the process of "productionizing" an application.- Android Performance - A four week course that teaches you how to diagnose and correct performance issues.
Google Play Services- This four week course teaches you how to access Google APIs such as maps, analytics or location for use in applications.- Gradle for Android and Java - The six week course covers the Gradle build tool which you can use to compile and package applications.
- UX Design for Mobile Developers - A six week course that covers important design techniques focusing on mobile and Android development.
Paid Courses
- Android Developer Nanodegree - This paid course takes nine to twelve months to complete at a minimum workload of 10 hours per week. It costs $200 per month and requires an intermediate or better proficiency of Java and mobile development. The course has been specifically designed to prepare students for a career in technology.
- Developing Android apps - A ten week course that costs $199 per month. It is the first course in the Android Developer Nanodegree which provides you with step by step instructions to build a cloud-connected Android app.
Courses not open yet
- Android Ubiquitous Computing - A four week course that teaches you the basics of extending your application to wearables, TV and Auto.
- Android Design for Developers - A four week course that teaches you material design and Android design fundamentals.
The beginner course is well done and it even comes with options to download all lessons to the local system so that you can watch them without Internet connection. If you are a complete beginner, you may want to start with that course as it covers basics such as views or layouts, and does not require Android Studio or another programming environment which are often complicated to set up.
Thanks for the tip Martin.
It is for these kinds of posts that I follow GHacks.
What’s up with the generic comment, are you a bot?
2G?
Where on the planet is that still in use? I was forced to give up using my RAZRV3 years ago because 2G was phased out by AT&T.
Everywhere 3G has been turned off and you don’t have LTE coverage, and believe me there are many developed countries where this is the case and if it weren’t for 2G you wouldn’t even be able to make a phone call.
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t believe tha term “2G” is in the article. Perhaps you are referring to “AGM G2”??
@Martin
Your website has gone insane.
When I the post button I then saw my comment posted on a different article page. When I opened this article again, it is here.
@Tachy @Martin Brinkmann
” Your website has gone insane. ”
Same here. Has happened several times.
@Tachy,
@Martin P.,
For over two weeks now,
I’ve been seeing “Comments” posted by subscribers appearing in different, unrelated articles.
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572991
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572951
For the time being,
it would be better to specify the “article name and URL” at the beginning of the post.
@tachy a lot of non-phone devices with a sim in them rely on 2G, at least here in europe.
Usually things reporting usage or errors/alarms on something remote that does not get day to day inspection in person. They are out there in vast numbers doing important work. Reliable, good range. The low datarate is no problem at all in those cases.
3G is gone or on its last legs everywhere, but this stuff still has too much use to cancel.
Anyhow, interesting that they would put that in. I can see the point if you suspect a hostile 2G environment (amateur eavesdroppers with laptop, ranging up to professional grade MITM fake towers while “strangely” not getting the stronger crypto voip 4G because it is being jammed, and back down to something as old ‘stingray’ devices fallen into the wrong hands).
But does this also mean that they have handled and rolled out a fix for that nasty 4G ‘pwn by broadcast’ problem you reported earlier this year? I had 4G disabled due to that, on the off chance that some of the local criminals would buy some cheap chinese gear, download a working exploit and probe every phone in range all over town in the hope of getting into phones of the police.
>”While most may never be attacked in stingrays, it is still recommended to disable 2G cellular connections, especially since it does not have any downsides.”
The downside would be losing connectivity. I spend a lot of time way out in the countryside where there’s often no service or almost none. My network allows 2G, and I need it sometimes. I have an option on the phone to disable 2G, I may do that when I’m in the city and I have good 5G connectivity, but not out in the country.
I would imagine that the stingray exploits, like most of the bad things in this world, are probably things you will run into in the crowded big cities.
I stopped using it in a mobile (Wi-Fi line) environment, so I’m almost ignorant of the actual situation,
But the recent reality in Japan makes me realize that “the infrastructure of the web is nothing more than a papier-mâché fiction”.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/17/google-chrome-to-enable-https-first-by-default-for-all-users/#comment-4572402
It is already beyond the scope of what an individual can do.
What we should be aware of is the reality that “governments and those in power want to control the world through the Web”, and efforts to counter (resist and prevent) such ambitions are necessary.
Why do you want people to disable the privacy features? Hmmmmm?
Now You: do you plan to keep the Ads privacy features enabled?
I’d like to tell you, but apparently if you make a post critical of Google, you get censored. * [Editor: removed, just try to bring your opinion across without attacking anyone]
@Martin
You website is still psychotic. Comments attach to random stories.
@Martin please do fix the comments, it’s completely insane commenting here! :[
@Martin
The comments are seriously messed up on gHacks now. These comments are mixed with the article at the below URL.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/18/android-how-to-disable-2g-cellular-connections-to-improve-security/
And comments on other articles are from as far back as 2010.
What does this article has anything to do with all the comments on this article? LOL I think this Websuite is ran by ChatGPT. every article is messed up. Some older comments from 2015 shown up in recant articles, LOL
The picture captioned “Clearing the Android Auto’s cache might resolve the issue” is from Apple Carplay ;)
How about other things that matter:
Drop survival?
Screen toughness?
Degree of water and dust protection?