Video: .MP4, AVC, 1280x720, 15 fps | Audio: English, AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch | Duration: 4h 52m | 944 MB

Instructor: Jim Wilson

Start learning the skills necessary to create Android apps that provide the kind of rich, high-quality, and engaging experience users expect.

Providing a high-quality user experience is critical to the success of any application. Android provides a wide-variety of features and capabilities that empower developers to provide such an experience and this course, Enhancing the Android Application Experience, will serve as your guide to including these features in your applications. First, you'll learn how to include rich, card-based lists using RecyclerView and CardView. After that, you'll explore how to improve user interaction with options menus and app bar actions. Next, you'll cover how to expand your application navigation experience with NavigationDrawer. To assure application reliability, you'll learn how to create automated UI tests that cover RecyclerView, options menus, and NavigationDrawer. Additionally, you'll dive into how to enrich the app appearance and branding through resources, styles, and themes. Finally, you'll discover how to provide user customizable behavior with SharedPreferences and settings screens. By the end of this course, you'll have the necessary skills and knowledge to create Android apps of your own that provide a high-quality engaging user experience.