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Meta Android Developer Professional Certificate
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Meta Android Developer Professional Certificate

Launch your career as an Android app developer. Build job-ready skills for an in-demand career and earn a credential from Meta. No degree or prior experience required to get started.

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Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise

(2,285 reviews)

Beginner level
No prior experience required
Flexible schedule
8 months at 7 hours a week
Earn a career credential
Share your expertise with employers

Overview

  • Gain the skills required for an entry-level career as an Android developer.

  • Learn how to create applications for Android including how to build and manage the lifecycle of a mobile app using Android Studio.

  • Learn coding in Kotlin and the programming fundamentals for how to create the user interface (UI) and best practices for design.  

  • Create cross-platform mobile applications using React Native. Demonstrate your new skills by creating a job-ready portfolio you can show during interviews.

What’s included

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Taught in English
259 practice exercises

Professional Certificate - 12 course series

What you'll learn

  • Define the Fundamental concepts of Android app development

  • Set up and explore the Android Studio interface, configurations and built-in tools

  • Use Kotlin Playground

  • Create a simple Android app

Skills you'll gain

Category: Android Development
Category: Android Studio
Category: Application Development
Category: Kotlin
Category: User Interface (UI)
Category: Android (Operating System)
Category: UI Components
Category: Development Environment
Category: Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Category: Integrated Development Environments
Category: Mobile Development

What you'll learn

  • Implement Version Control systems 

  • Navigate and configure using the command line 

  • Use a GitHub repository. Create a GitHub repository

  • Manage code revisions

Skills you'll gain

Category: Version Control
Category: Git (Version Control System)
Category: GitHub
Category: Software Configuration Management
Category: Web Development
Category: Software Development Methodologies
Category: Unix Commands
Category: Software Versioning
Category: File Management
Category: Software Development
Category: Collaborative Software
Category: Linux
Category: Command-Line Interface

What you'll learn

  • Practice building and using functions

  • Practice different types of comparisons using operators

  • Use Kotlin to solve a coding challenge

  • Review and apply the fundamentals of programming

Skills you'll gain

Category: Kotlin
Category: Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
Category: Computer Programming
Category: Programming Principles
Category: Integrated Development Environments
Category: Scripting Languages
Category: Data Structures

What you'll learn

  • Describe the fundamentals of User Experience (UX) design and research

  • Describe accessibility considerations in design

  • Practice developing user empathy through research

  • Create wireframes and prototypes in Figma

Skills you'll gain

Category: Figma (Design Software)
Category: Usability
Category: Prototyping
Category: Design Elements And Principles
Category: Usability Testing
Category: Persona (User Experience)
Category: User Experience Design
Category: Wireframing
Category: Design Thinking
Category: Front-End Web Development
Category: User Research
Category: User Interface (UI) Design
Category: UI/UX Research
Category: Design Research
Category: User Centered Design
Category: User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Design
Category: Interaction Design
Category: Web Design

What you'll learn

  • Use UI component libraries to build Android UI

  • Compose UI using Kotlin UI views

  • Build a simple UI using the Layout Editor

  • Create a simple Android UI

Skills you'll gain

Category: User Interface (UI)
Category: Android Jetpack
Category: Android Studio
Category: User Interface (UI) Design
Category: Animations
Category: Kotlin
Category: Android Development
Category: Responsive Web Design
Category: Mobile Development

What you'll learn

  • Implement an Android application with an Activity.

  • Implement advanced object-oriented features in Android.

  • Use mocks and fakes to perform unit testing in Android.

  • Use a Lambda expression to define a function as an object. Use collection processing methods for multistep collection processing.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Kotlin
Category: Android Development
Category: Test Driven Development (TDD)
Category: Unit Testing
Category: Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
Category: Mobile Development
Category: Application Development
Category: Functional Design
Category: Software Design Patterns
Category: Program Development

What you'll learn

  • Review some of the most useful tools and packages available to a Kotlin developer

  • Apply Kotlin coroutines in Android applications

  • Integrate code from other languages into Kotlin. Build a data driven Android app

Skills you'll gain

Category: Restful API
Category: SQL
Category: JSON
Category: Kotlin
Category: Databases
Category: Data Storage
Category: Database Management
Category: Web Services
Category: Mobile Development
Category: Android Development

What you'll learn

  • Create simple JavaScript code

  • Create and manipulate objects and arrays

  • Write unit testing using Jest

Skills you'll gain

Category: Javascript
Category: Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
Category: Node.JS
Category: Jest (JavaScript Testing Framework)
Category: Mobile Development
Category: Functional Design
Category: Debugging
Category: Software Testing
Category: Program Development
Category: Web Applications
Category: Data Structures
Category: Cross Platform Development

What you'll learn

  • Use reusable components to render views where data changes over time

  • Organize React projects to create more scalable and maintainable websites and apps

  • Use props to pass data between components. Create dynamic and interactive web pages and apps

  • Use forms to allow users to interact with the app. Build an application in React

Skills you'll gain

Category: React.js
Category: UI Components
Category: Front-End Web Development
Category: Application Development
Category: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Category: Event-Driven Programming
Category: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Category: Web Applications
Category: Javascript
Category: JavaScript Frameworks

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: React Native
Category: Cross Platform Development
Category: UI Components
Category: User Interface (UI)
Category: Application Frameworks
Category: Application Development
Category: Mobile Development
Category: TypeScript
Category: Development Environment
Category: React.js

What you'll learn

  • Build and style a user interface (UI) using fragments and views

  • Use Kotlin and MVVM architecture to design an efficient and engaging app

  • Fetch data from an application programming interface (API) and make use of LiveData

  • Demonstrate clean and bug free coding while keeping an eye on optimization

Skills you'll gain

Category: Android Jetpack
Category: Android Studio
Category: User Interface (UI)
Category: Wireframing
Category: Git (Version Control System)
Category: Kotlin
Category: Android Development
Category: JSON
Category: User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Design
Category: User Flows
Category: Mobile Development

What you'll learn

  • Prepare for a coding interview

  • Prepare for a Meta interview

  • Solve problems using code

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Structures
Category: Algorithms
Category: Computer Science
Category: Technical Communication
Category: Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
Category: Communication
Category: Theoretical Computer Science
Category: Python Programming
Category: Computational Logic
Category: Java Programming
Category: Programming Principles
Category: Program Development
Category: Computational Thinking
Category: Pseudocode

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