Building Your First Connected App with Android Studio
Pluralsight
Course Summary
This course will teach you how to make your Android app connect to a web service and retrieve JSON data from the web, show it with a RecyclerView and persist data with SharedPreferences. You'll also create menus dynamically and use data binding.
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Course Description
There are many times when your Android app will need to fetch data from the internet, to provide users with fresh information. In this course, Building Your First Connected App with Android Studio, you'll learn how to make your Android app connect to a web service and retrieve JSON data from the web. First, you'll connect to the Google Books API to make searches and retrieve book titles, covers and detailed information about your favorite books. Next, you'll learn how to add networking and internet permissions, build URIs, use AsyncTask and NetworkUtils to connect to the web asynchronously. Then, you'll discover how to parse JSON content and correctly use a RecyclerView. Finally, you'll see the Google data binding library in action, and how to use Parcelable classes in order to obtain greater speed of execution. By the end of this course, you'll have a better understanding on how to build your first connected app with Android Studio.
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Course Syllabus
Course Overview- 1m 26s
—Course Overview 1m 26sGetting Started- 4m 5s
—Let's Get Started 4m 5sConnecting to a Web Service- 38m 19sParsing JSON Content- 33m 5sShowing Images and Using Parcelable Classes- 29m 30sSaving Data with SharedPreferences and Recap- 32m 58s