From the course: Android Studio Essential Training 2020

What you should know

From the course: Android Studio Essential Training 2020

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What you should know

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- [Instructor] This course is designed for application developers who want to learn how to build apps for Android mobile devices. It's a beginning course and in fact, it's one of the first courses you might want to watch to learn how to use all of Google's tools for Android developers. When you're building apps for Android, you'll be programming in either Java or in Kotlin. If you're working on older legacy apps, you might still be working with Java, but moving forward if you're building a brand new application it's very likely that you'll be working with Kotlin and that's because Google has decided that going forward, Android is a Kotlin-first platform. So, learning about Kotlin is probably your first skill that you'll want outside of Android Studio. In this course, the primary focus is on the IDE, not on building complete apps. So if you're watching this course without first learning the programming language, that's fine. The focus is on the tool. But to actually build the apps, you'll need the language. Start with the course Kotlin Essential Training and then there are many other intermediate and more advanced courses on using Kotlin to build apps for Android. Android Studio is based on the product, IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition, and just about everything you do in terms of generic code editing, refactoring variable names and function names and so on, come directly from IntelliJ IDEA. So, the more you know about IDEA, the more you know about Android Studio. You can watch this course to learn about the base product. If you've watched that course and this one, you'll have all the tools you need to get started building Android applications in Android Studio.

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