Android Development
Let's start from the basics of building native Android apps with Kotlin + Jetpack Compose — a 25-lesson tutorial that walks you step by step from Composable, State, and Navigation all the way to ViewModel, Room, Retrofit, Coroutines, and a production-ready project.
25 Lessons · 220 min · Learning Platform Editorial Team
What Is Android Native Development
What you need on the desk
- Android Studio (install it from developer.android.com)
- A computer (Windows/Mac/Linux) — 8GB+ RAM recommended for running the emulator
- A physical Android device (optional, with USB debugging enabled)
Know this much before you start
- You should understand the basics of Kotlin syntax (it helps to go through the site's Kotlin tutorial first)
- Basic comfort with the command line/terminal
- Optional: familiarity with object-oriented programming concepts will help
By the end, you can
- Explain native Android development using Kotlin + Jetpack Compose
- Write Composable, State, Modifier, and Navigation code properly
- Separate UI from business logic using ViewModel/MVVM architecture
- Use Retrofit (networking), Room (local database), and Coroutines/Flow (async) in production
- Correctly handle runtime permissions and testing (Unit/UI tests)
- Build a Todo app and a Weather app project through to completion, with a Play Store readiness checklist