What You will Learn?

• Introduction
• Model View ViewModel (MVVM) Architecture fundamentals and variations | Is MVVM the perfect architecture? | Overview of MVVM with whiteboard example | Pros and Cons of MVVM | Package structure
• How to create Vector Drawables | Difference between Raster (PNG, JPG, BMP) and Vector (SVG) Images? | Uh Oh! | How to use Inkscape to create an SVG from a BMP/PNG | How to convert an SVG into an Android Studio Vector Asset | How to create simple animations using animation lists and fade animation |
• Material Design User Interface using ConstraintLayout and Styles | Building an XML Layout using ConstraintLayout | Using ConstraintLayout Chains | Some tips on using Styles to create a material design look
• How to use (and when not to use) the Android Navigation Component from Android Jetpack | Adding Safe Args to gradle | Building a Navigation Graph using the Navigation Editor (XML) | Creating a NavHostFragment to host the Navigation Component and adding it to an Activity | How to actually change destinations in our Fragments using the Navigation Component (with safe args)
• Setting up Fragments as Views in MVVM using Kotlin Synthetic Properties | Starting point | Importing an XML layout to an Activity/Fragment using Kotlin Synthetic Properties | How to reference Views in the Fragment using synthetic properties | Adding onClickListener to our views | Intercepting OnBackPressed (NOTE: The API for this has changed since making this video. I have updated the Repository appropriately) | How to observe the ViewModel using LiveData callbacks
• ViewModels in MVVM with Kotlin Coroutines for Concurrency | A look at my BaseViewModel class which contains part of the Coroutines Implementation (Coroutine Scope) | Starting point | Handling events from the View in the ViewModel | Using the launch Coroutine Builder to access data | How to update the MutableLiveData fields to publish data to the View
• Modern RecyclerView implementation using LiveData to handle ItemTouchListener() callbacks | Overview of the RecyclerView within the XML View with LinearLayoutManager | What does the DiffUtil do? | A look at the source code of ListAdapter to better understand how it works | Writing the RecyclerView.ViewHolder class | Why is it actually called a RecyclerView? What gets Recycled? | Writing our RecyclerView.ListAdapter | How to use a MutableLiveData object to publish events from the onClickListener in the ViewHolders | Overview of the Fragment which manages the RecyclerView, and how to avoid memory leaks!
• FirebaseAuth for User Authentication using Google Sign In | How to set up a new Firebase Project using Android Studio | Enabling Authentication (FirebaseAuth) in the Firebase Console | Setting up a debug signing certificate for your App in Firebase | Gradle Configurations for FirebaseAuth | Setting up GoogleSignInProvider | Handling the result in onActivityResult | Back FirebaseAuth Implementation using Coroutines
• Local Database with Room Persistence Library and Coroutines | Entities and Primary Keys in Room | Setting up a Dao (Data Access Object) in Room | Overview of RoomDatabase implementation | How to build your Database and get a reference to you Dao | How to get data in and out of the Dao using suspend functions
• Setting up a Local and Remote Database using Firebase's Firestore NoSQL library
• Communicating with Firestore using a Repository, with Coroutines
• Dependency Injection using an AndroidViewModel, and ViewModelProvider.Factory | What is dependency injection in simple terms? | Implementing Dependency Injection using AndroidViewModel | Quick look at using a ViewModelProvider.Factory to create our ViewModel with the Injected Repository | How to use our Dependency Injector from within a Fragment or Activity