Android Beginner’s Essential Prerequisites
Planning to get started in Android development? To build a strong building it's important to lay a foundation.
If you are planning to get started, take a look at the core concepts that I will be discussing here. Please keep up with this article and find out whether you are familiar with this concept if not try to spend some minutes catch-up with this concept for your smooth android dev journey. Let’s not create further ado, let’s get started……..
1. Basic Programming Knowledge
So to get a smooth ride in android development basic tech knowledge is important. You should know on
- Variables
- Data Types
- Operators
- Keywords
- Decision Making
- Loops
- Arrays
- Strings
- Functions
- File
A basic understanding of concepts will help to boost android development.
2. OOPs Concepts
Learning OOPs will create a huge impact on your Android development. So if we didn’t know about class, objects, etc…, it will become really hard to understand what’s it all about, what actions are taking place, and what is its purpose? So, to get a better idea of it you should have known these concepts:
- Class
- Object
- Inheritance
- Abstraction
- Encapsulation
- Polymorphism
3. Choose a language and IDE
For Android development, we have many choices of language depending on the type of mobile app you want to create. I have already created an article on a basic overview of Android Development. You can check out for further details about types of mobile apps, languages, and IDEs.
So, my series is about Android application development I will be focusing on Kotlin. You can choose Java because java is no longer android official language I will be exploring its Kotlin side versionIn the case of IDEs, I will be using the Android studio
4. Android App Components
App components are essential building blocks of the android app. They have their lifecycle from creation to destruction. The main app components are as follows:
1. Activity
It is the entry point where the user sees and interacts with the apps. Usually, when we use an app we can see a lot of pictures, buttons, and other elements These pieces of UI elements are all placed and arranged in Activity.
2. Services
The services are entry point that makes apps run in the background it cannot be seen by the user. An example of it is Music Player like Spotify, which plays songs even if it doesn’t run foreground.
3. Broadcast Receivers
Broadcast Receivers are the component that responds to messages from other application or from the system itself. Examples: Alarm, Phone call, etc…
4. Content Providers
Content providers are the component that helps to provide data to your app. They help to access app data also data of other apps.
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This knowledge is enough to get started, we can level up to its other section through the upcoming series. So stay tuned…………….
So, let put’s some action in the next article.
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