Delve deeper into Android development with our new course!

Posted by Jocelyn Becker, Senior Program Manager, Google Developer Training

If you know the basics of building Android apps and want to delve deeper, take a look at our new Advanced Android Development course built by the Google Developers Training team.

Do you want to learn how to use fragments, add widgets for your app, and fine tune your app's performance? Make your app available to a diverse user base through localization and accessibility features? Use sensors in your app? How about creating custom views, drawing directly to the screen and running animations?

Each lesson in our new course takes you through building an app that illustrates an advanced concept, from incorporating maps into your app to using a SurfaceView to draw outside the main UI thread.

This course is intended for experienced Java programmers who already know the fundamentals of building Android apps. It is a follow-on course to our Android Developer Fundamentals course. The course is intended to be taught as instructor-led training. However, all the materials are published online and are available to anyone who wants to learn more advanced concepts of Android development.

We have published detailed written tutorials, concept guides, slide decks, and most importantly, a treasure trove of apps in GitHub. You can find links to everything at developers.google.com/training/android-advanced.

Educational institutions worldwide are invited to use this course to teach your students. Individual developers are welcome (and encouraged) to work through the tutorials to learn on their own.

Each lesson presents a different, advanced topic, and you can teach or learn each topic independently of the others.

Build apps as you learn how to use sensors, add places to your app, and draw directly to a canvas. And much more!

The new course covers:

• using fragments
• building widgets
• using sensors
• measuring and improving application performance
• localizing your app
• making your app accessible
• adding location, places and maps to your apps
• creating custom views
• drawing to the canvas
• drawing to a SurfaceView off the main thread
• running animations

Learn more at developers.google.com/training/android-advanced.