Android app using Kotlin

By Prof Kannan Moudgalya - Principal Investigator of Spoken Tutorial Project | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Learners enrolled: 49516

This course comprises 10 audio-video spoken tutorials, using which you can self-learn how to create an Android app using Kotlin sofware with ease.

STEP 1-

First of all install Android Studio by following the steps given in this sheet.

https://spoken-tutorial.org/Android-app-using-Kotlin-Installation-Sheet-English.pdf/

This sheet gives the steps to install the Android Studio on Linux and Windows OS.
Open the sheet, read the instructions for your OS and install Android Studio on your machine.
Cross-verify (as mentioned in the sheet) to confirm successful installation.
For Windows OS, please ensure Notepad ++ is also installed on the machine.

STEP 2-

Next, read this sheet. https://spoken-tutorial.org/Android-app-using-Kotlin-Instruction-Sheet-English.pdf/

This sheet explains how to learn from spoken tutorials.
This sheet also mentions some important information about the text editors while coding, how to use the command prompt (in Windows OS), how to use the Code Files, how to do the Assignments, etc.
Read this sheet carefully and make a note of all the information, before you begin.

STEP 3-
Follow the side-by-side learning methodology while learning from spoken tutorials - watch the video, listen to the instructions, pause the video, try out the command on your system. You should get the exact same results as shown in the video. If successful, proceed with the video. Else, rewind and watch the video again and replicate the commands shown.

Complete all the videos in the given sequence one by one.
The Assignment for each tutorial is for your self-assessment only. Do not upload it anywhere for evaluation.

Important note:

1. Your laptop configuration should have the specifications as given under system requirements in the link https://developer.android.com/studio/

2. Make sure Java is installed on your system.
3. There should not be drop in Internet connection while installing and building the First project.
4. Follow the steps as shown in the tutorial "Getting started with Hello World app" carefully. It explains how to do the setup in the Android phone.

Summary

Course Status :	Upcoming
Course Type :	Elective
Duration :	Self Paced
Category :	Multidisciplinary
Credit Points :	2
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate

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Android app using Kotlin

Android is an open source and Linux-based Operating System for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers.

Android Studio is the official IDE for android application development. App development on Android was almost exclusively done using the Java programming language.

Kotlin is a new open source programming language built by JetBrains, known for IntelliJ IDEA (Android Studio is based on IntelliJ IDEA). Kotlin is a language that runs on the JVM (Java Virtual Machine).

Google has announced Kotlin as an official language on Android. Kotlin, is a statically typed programming language for the JVM, Android and the browser. It’s deep interoperability with Java, which attracts more Java developers. It is tools-friendly as IDE gives suggestions for Kotlin code, can convert Java code to Kotlin code. It is expressive and makes your code more readable and understandable.

The Android app, source code and the content for this tutorial was contributed by Abhishek Shah, a 2018 FOSSEE intern of the Spoken-Tutorial Project from Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya Engineering College, Gujarat.

The Spoken Tutorial effort for Android app using Kotlin has been contributed by Nirmala Venkat and supported by Saurabh Adhikary and Nancy Varkey from Spoken Tutorial roject, IIT Bombay.

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