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About the Course

What you’ll achieve: In this project-centered course*, you’ll design, build, and distribute your own unique application for the Android mobile platform. We’ll provide you with a set of customizable building blocks that you can assemble to create many different types of apps, and that will help you become familiar with many important specificities of Android development. When you complete the project, in addition to having a personalized app that you can use and share, you’ll have the skills and background you need to move on to more advanced coursework in Android development. What you’ll need to get started: This project-centered course is designed for learners who have some prior experience programming in Java, such as an introductory college course or Coursera’s Java Programming Specialization (https://www.coursera.org/specializations/java-programming). You will need a computer with a stable Internet connection, but you will not need an Android phone - we’ll use free software that you can use to emulate a phone on your computer. We'll use Android Studio as IDE; it is compatible with most computer and operating systems. You can find detailed system requirements here: https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html#Requirements. *About Project-Centered Courses: Project-centered courses are designed to help you complete a personally meaningful real-world project, with your instructor and a community of learners with similar goals providing guidance and suggestions along the way. By actively applying new concepts as you learn, you’ll master the course content more efficiently; you’ll also get a head start on using the skills you gain to make positive changes in your life and career. When you complete the course, you’ll have a finished project that you’ll be proud to use and share. Time: 10 hours of study, 10 hours of active project work...

Top reviews

TY

Jul 31, 2017

Very useful course! Answers all my questions, helps a lot to understand the whole process of mobile development! THANK YOU for the opportunity to gain valuable skills in such an easy way of study!

RB

Apr 18, 2016

I very much enjoyed this course. It gave a great introduction to Android programming for those who don't know any android programming to start with. I recommend this course as a place to start.

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By Koustav M

Jun 18, 2020

Good

By Atul A

May 3, 2018

Good

By sitesh m

Dec 6, 2016

nice

By Utku K

Mar 15, 2016

Good

By Aniket A

Sep 13, 2022

<3

By chetan s

Jul 31, 2020

ok

By Madnani N

Oct 31, 2021

-

By Aya A H A E

Sep 13, 2020

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By alebri

Dec 15, 2021

Jut finished the week 1 and I will go further because it is an interesting course.

I give a 3 stars rating because of small details that add to each others and are finally quite disturbing.

- A lot of sentences are bad displayed on the screen (PC) due to "carriage return" which make it quit difficult to read, especially when learning someting new.

- Listening to the english said with a very strong accent makes me regret the course does not exist in French directly.

- The recording is not consistent with variation of the quality of mics. I was even bothered by the squeaking sound of the chair (end of 1st video of week 2)

I am sorry about those comments which sounds petty, but in comparison with other courses, this one does not feel professional especially taking in consideration it is provided by a school.

Please keep in mind that the purpose of those comments are mainly for your self progression, which, I'm sure will attained.

By Mario M

May 10, 2021

This course is fairly easy to follow as it is more a hands-on workshop than a typical course. It provides a nice introduction to Android programming, however: it is way too outdated and sometimes it is a bit tricky to code the sample apps using the modern API.

On the other hand, if you're auditing the course, bear in mind you won't be able to get the last quiz graded (nor your application).

Not bad, but surely there will be better (or at least more up-to-date) options out there.

By Johannes H

Apr 14, 2020

Good course, but it should really get an update. The recordings are done with Android studio 1.5 and this means year 2015. Sorry but i can not give more than 3 stars for that in a field that changes so fast. Although most of the things still work as described. If the course would be up to date including some of the more modern features it would be 4 stars.

By Sai P G

Jul 10, 2020

To be frank I have a bad experience here. I expected a lot from this course but it is not upto the mark. Please update your Android Studio to 2020 version it is really very hard new learners to find old version and install. Suggest learners to choose Java language over Krotlein. Overall it is a bad course i is good for Beginners.

Thank You:)

By Devin D

Sep 7, 2022

This course will help get you building simple android apps quickly. It is a decent course, but it a bit dated. Would give a better rating if it was a bit more current. Somethings have changed a bit with Android studio so it requires a bit of googling. If you have programming experience it shouldn't be a problem though.

By Swathi R

Nov 24, 2020

There should not be an expiry date for a paid course. You are ripping off student money. I paid twice just to earn my certificate. At least send email reminders that the subscription will expire before locking the course.

However, this course was well structured and well taught by CentraleSupelec

By Aditya M

May 2, 2020

The course is frankly quite outdated. I like the approach of peer graded assignment but I would also appreciate that the mentors too review the applications. As this is a project-oriented course I would highly recommend any novice to finish this course with full dedication.

By Kanishk K

May 5, 2020

The course is outdated as most of the code doesn't work in modern android studio. The interface of the app is also not same as shown in studio. The course provider should update the course as per the modern requirement.

By Ashwin T

Jun 29, 2021

I really do appreciate the course and its simply great step up for me as a beginner, but i really would like to point out that the accent was really a bit hard to break down for me. But the subtitles really helped out.

By Emad A

May 13, 2016

There are courses that offer better level of details and better course materials and presentation .. and also for free ..

However this course is a best-effort course and is helpful for beginners.

By David A R

Aug 3, 2020

Very good for the very basic capabilities on Android for someone who has some basic knowledge of programming. However, the project is currently dated and should be updated.

By Mike M

Oct 26, 2020

Hard to understand the instructors, the Android Studio Version they were using to guided is not an up-to-date version, making it very difficult to follow, in my opinion

By Aryan

Sep 13, 2020

The course gives you a good head start for what is android and how are android apps built. Seems to be a bit less dynamic but overall it's a good course.

By Mani A

Mar 13, 2016

This could be improved by adding more interesting subjects :

- how to use list adapters with list view

- how to use menus

- how to use scrolling view

- etc

By Samantha W

May 18, 2020

Interesting information but the focus was on just reusing code presented in the videos and didn't actually explain how to create new blocks of code.

By ABHISHEK D

Jul 26, 2020

course was nice for beginner and learn a lot ,but they taught us only basic stuff ,but its ok now i lgain intermediate skills using youtube.

By 052_ M S

May 29, 2020

I have improved my skills in app development field from this course.But not too extent since this course contains less content.