Android Developer Roadmap

A complete roadmap to learn Android App Development. This roadmap will help you in becoming a complete Android Developer.

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Roadmap to learn Android App Development

Programming
- Java
- Kotlin
Android Studio
- Android Studio IDE Overview
- Project Structure
  - Java/Kotlin
  - XML
  - .gradle files
Android Component
- Activity
  - Activity Lifecycle
  - Tasks & Back Stack
- Service
- Broadcast Receiver
- Content Provider
Intents
- Types of Intent
  - Implicit
  - Explicit
- Intent Filter
Static User Interface
- View
  - Button, ImageView, TextView, EditText etc
- ViewGroup
  - LinearLayout, RelativeLayout, FrameLayout, ConstraintLayout
Dynamic User Interface
- RecyclerView
- ViewPager
- Spinner
CustomView
- Canvas
- Bitmap
- Paint
UI Resources
- Drawables
- String
- Styles
Fragments
- Fragment Lifecycle
- Fragment Manager
Support User Interface
- ProgressBar
- Dialogs
- Toast & Snackbar
Storage
- Shared Preferences
- DataStore
- File Systems
- Database
  - RoomDB
Build
- Gradle
- Debug / Release Configuration
Threading
- Thread
- Handler/Looper
- ThreadPoolExecutor
- RxJava
- Coroutines/Flow
- WorkManager
Debugging
- Memory profiling
- Logging
- Systrace
- Exceptions
- Error Handling
Memory Leak
- Detecting and Fixing Memory Leaks
- Context
3rd Party Library
- Image Loading
  - Glide
  - Picasso
- Dependency Injection
  - Dagger
- Networking
  - Fast Android Networking Library
  - Retrofit
- MultiThreading
  - RxJava
  - Coroutines
  - Kotlin Flow API
Coroutines - You can learn these topics here: Master Kotlin Coroutines
- coroutines
- suspend
- launch, async-await, withContext
- dispatchers
- scope, context, job
- lifecycleScope, viewModelScope, GlobalScope
- suspendCoroutine, suspendCancellableCoroutine
- coroutineScope, supervisorScope
Kotlin Flow API - You can learn these topics here: Kotlin Flow API
- Flow Builder, Operator, Collector
- flowOn, dispatchers
- Operators such as filter, map, zip, flatMapConcat, retry, debounce, distinctUntilChanged, flatMapLatest
- Terminal operators
- Cold Flow vs Hot Flow: Cold Flow vs Hot Flow
- StateFlow, SharedFlow, callbackFlow, channelFlow
Data Format
- JSON
  - GSON
- Flat Buffer
- Protocol Buffer
Networking
- GET/POST/DELETE/PUT/PATCH
- OkHttp, Interceptor
- Caching
- Retrofit with Coroutines/Flow
- Multipart request
- Read, Write Timeout
- OAuth 2.0 - Refresh and Access Token
- HTTP Status Codes
Android Jetpack
- Foundation Components
  - AppCompat
  - Android KTX
  - Multidex
- Architecture Components
  - LiveData
  - ViewModel
  - DataBinding
  - Paging
  - Work Manager
  - Navigation
- Behaviour Components
  - Download Manager
  - Media Playback
  - Notification
  - Permissions
  - Preference
  - Sharing
  - Slice
- UI Component
  - Animation & Transition
  - Android Auto
  - Emoji
  - Palette
  - Android TV
  - Android Wear
Compose
- State: remember, rememberSaveable, MutableState
- Recomposition
- State hoisting
- Side-effects
- Modifier
- Theme
- Layout, List
- Gestures, Animation
- CompositionLocal
Common Design Patterns and Architecture
- Builder Pattern
- Singleton
- Dependency Injection
- Factory
- Observer
- Repository
- MVVM
- MVP
- MVI
- Clean architecture
Unit Testing
- Local Unit Testing
- Instrumentation Testing
Firebase
- FCM
- Crashlytics
- Analytics
- Remote Config
- App Indexing
- Dynamic Link
Security
- Encrypt / Decrypt
- Proguard
- R8
App Release
- .keystore file
- App Bundle
- Playstore
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License

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