Advanced Android App Development

Ready to level-up your skills as an Android developer? In this course, you will learn how to make your app production-ready by developing a variety of different sample apps, each designed to showcase advanced capabilities of the Android platform, including fragments, widgets, media playback, and testing. You’ll learn how to create UI tests using the Espresso framework, to leverage third-party libraries and services like ExoPlayer and Firebase Cloud Messaging, and use Google APIs to make your app aware of its location. By the end of the course, you’ll know how to publish your own app to the Google Play Store, where you can reach and engage users across the globe.

Prerequisites and Requirements: This course assumes you have taken , or have an equivalent background as an Android developer. We also assume you are familiar with using GitHub, which we use to share code. Take our course on if you need this background.Access to an Android device is helpful, but you may use an emulator if you prefer.See the for using Udacity.