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Kotlin for Android

Build practical Android apps with modern Kotlin, Android Studio, Jetpack fundamentals, and clean app architecture.

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20
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
20
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
7.3
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Kotlin for Android Course

Kotlin for Android is a practical Mobile Development course for learners who want to build real Android apps from the ground up. You will learn Kotlin for Android, work confidently in Android Studio, and develop the core skills needed to create polished, reliable mobile experiences.

Build Android Apps With Kotlin

  • Build practical Android apps with modern Kotlin, Android Studio, Jetpack fundamentals, and clean app architecture.
  • Learn essential Kotlin syntax, null safety, data models, collections, and common Android coding patterns.
  • Create interactive screens with layouts, forms, validation, RecyclerView lists, and navigation.
  • Prepare apps for real use with ViewModels, coroutines, Room, API calls, testing, debugging, and release polish.

A hands-on Mobile Development course focused on Kotlin for Android and production-ready Android app skills.

This course starts with the foundations of Android Studio and Kotlin, then moves into the Android project structure, activities, lifecycle, user interface development, and app state. You will practice building screens, handling user input, validating forms, displaying dynamic lists, and connecting multiple screens into a complete app flow. As the course progresses, you will learn Jetpack fundamentals such as ViewModels and UI state management, then add real app capabilities with coroutines, preferences, local storage, Room database, networking, and JSON parsing. You will also cover clean app architecture through repositories and dependency boundaries, so your code is easier to maintain as your apps grow. By the end of Kotlin for Android, you will understand how modern Android apps are planned, built, debugged, tested, polished, and prepared for release, giving you the confidence to move from beginner exercises to practical Mobile Development projects.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Foundations

5 lessons

Lesson 1: Setting Up Android Studio and Your First Kotlin App

20 min Preview
In this lesson, students install Android Studio, understand the main parts of a new Android project, and run their first Kotlin-based app on either an emulator or a physical device. The focus is pract…

Lesson 2: Kotlin Syntax for Android Developers

22 min
This lesson gives Android developers a practical working grip on Kotlin syntax: variables, functions, classes, null safety, collections, lambdas, and control flow. The focus is not learning Kotlin in …

Lesson 3: Null Safety, Types, and Defensive Code

20 min
This lesson teaches Kotlin's type system from an Android developer's point of view: nullable and non-nullable references, safe calls, Elvis operators, smart casts, and defensive checks at app boundari…

Lesson 4: Functions, Classes, and Data Models

21 min
This lesson turns basic Kotlin syntax into code you can organize, reuse, and pass through an Android app. You will define functions with clear inputs and outputs, use default and named arguments, and …

Lesson 5: Collections, Lambdas, and Common Kotlin Patterns

22 min
This lesson builds the Kotlin fluency Android developers use every day: choosing the right collection type, transforming data with collection operators, writing readable lambdas, and recognizing commo…

Android Core

2 lessons

Lesson 6: Understanding Android Project Structure

19 min
This lesson explains how a modern Android project is organized in Android Studio and why the structure matters when building Kotlin apps. Learners will identify the purpose of the project root, Gradle…

Lesson 7: Activities, Lifecycle, and App State Basics

23 min
This lesson explains how Android activities act as the main screens of an app, how the activity lifecycle changes as users open, leave, rotate, and return to an app, and what those lifecycle changes m…

User Interface

3 lessons

Lesson 8: Building Screens with Layouts and Views

22 min
In this lesson, students learn how Android screens are built with the traditional View system: XML layout files, View and ViewGroup classes, common widgets, layout attributes, resources, and Android S…

Lesson 9: Handling Input, Buttons, Forms, and Validation

21 min
This lesson teaches how Android apps collect user input, respond to button taps, and validate form data before continuing. Students learn practical patterns for text fields, checkboxes, radio-style ch…

Lesson 10: Displaying Lists with RecyclerView

24 min
RecyclerView is Android’s standard tool for displaying scrollable collections of data, from simple text lists to complex feeds. In this lesson, students build a practical list UI by connecting a data …

App Flow

1 lesson

Lesson 11: Navigation Between Screens

20 min
This lesson teaches practical navigation between screens in a Kotlin Android app. Students learn how to model destinations, trigger navigation from UI events, pass simple arguments, and keep screen fl…

App Architecture

2 lessons

Lesson 12: ViewModels and UI State Management

23 min
This lesson explains how Android ViewModels act as screen-level state holders: they survive configuration changes, coordinate data from repositories or use cases, process user actions, and expose a si…

Lesson 18: Organizing Code with Repositories and Dependency Boundaries

23 min
In this lesson, students learn how repositories create a clean boundary between app features and data sources in a Kotlin Android app. The focus is practical: keeping ViewModels from knowing whether d…

Data and Async Work

3 lessons

Lesson 13: Coroutines for Background Work

24 min
This lesson introduces Kotlin coroutines as the standard way to run background work in Android apps without blocking the main thread. Students learn what a coroutine is, how suspension differs from th…

Lesson 14: Saving Data with Preferences and Local Storage

22 min
In this lesson, students learn how Android apps save small pieces of local state using preferences and how to choose the right storage option for different kinds of data. The lesson focuses on practic…

Lesson 15: Working with Room Database

25 min
In this lesson, students learn how to add local persistence to an Android app using Room, Jetpack’s SQLite abstraction layer. The lesson focuses on the core pieces of a Room setup: entities, DAOs, dat…

Networking

1 lesson

Lesson 16: Calling APIs and Parsing JSON

24 min
This lesson teaches how an Android app talks to a web API, receives JSON, and turns that JSON into Kotlin objects the UI can use. Students learn the practical path from URL to response body to parsed …

Production Readiness

3 lessons

Lesson 17: Loading, Error, and Empty States

20 min
This lesson shows how to make Android screens feel reliable when data is loading, unavailable, or failing. Students will learn how to model UI states explicitly in Kotlin, expose them from a ViewModel…

Lesson 19: Debugging, Logging, and Testing Core Features

22 min
In this lesson, students make an Android feature easier to trust before release by combining focused debugging, useful logging, and practical tests. The emphasis is not on testing everything, but on p…

Lesson 20: Polishing and Preparing an Android App for Release

21 min
This lesson turns a working Android project into a release-ready app. Students learn how to review product polish, configure release builds, protect secrets, shrink and optimize the APK or App Bundle,…
About Your Instructor
Professor John Ingram

Professor John Ingram

Professor John Ingram guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.