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Hello and welcome to this course in this video, I would like to show you what you will learn throughout

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the course and tell you a little bit about the project.

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And, General, give you an idea of the structure of the course.

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All right.

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So let's get started.

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First of all, you will get an introduction as we have already started.

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There are just give you some tips on how to take the course and how to get most out of it.

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Then we get ready with Android studio, which means we are going to set up Android studio in order to

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start using it on our Windows, Mac or Linux machine.

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And then we will start with our first little application.

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We will set up the emulator so that we can test the applications on our emulator directly so we don't

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have to always use our phone.

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Even though you will also see how to test your applications on your phone.

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Then we will get into the cocklin fundamentals because it's important to understand the kotlin fundamentals

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before we dig deeper into developing applications, because we're going to use Coplan as our programming

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language to develop Android applications.

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And that's why it really makes sense to look into the basics.

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So first of all, general fundamentals, then object oriented programming basics and Connellan.

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And then we're going to look into some more fundamentals, which will be important for the ongoing chapters.

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We're not going to cover all of the fundamentals directly at the beginning because we are going to add

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new fundamental step by step throughout the course so that we can directly dive into building applications.

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Then we start with this very basic application age in minutes app where you will learn how to do the

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following.

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So we're going to build this little application in which you can select your birthday and then you can

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just go ahead and calculate how old you are in terms of minutes.

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So in my case, let's say I select my birthday, which was.

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May 31st, 1988, and I can see, OK, this is how old I am in terms of minutes, OK, so I'm super

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old when it comes to the minutes count 16 million minutes already.

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And that's the first little application that you will build, because I think it makes sense to have

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multiple aspects that directly cover and not just a very simple basic application.

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OK, so I think this is good enough for the start.

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And then we, of course, go ahead and build more and more advanced applications as a very classic application

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that you have to build, for example, in universities, or that is taught quite often when it comes

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to learning to use UI.

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So user interfaces and build user interfaces in Android.

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They're a calculator, of course, makes sense.

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And we're going to build a little calculator therefore as well.

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And then the apps get more and more advanced.

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So you can see already in terms of the length of the sections, you can see the quiz app is already

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a more advanced application than the calculator than the drawing app is even more advanced and the seven

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minute workout app is a seven hour.

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S. So let's look at the quiz here, you will learn a bunch of cool new features which are super useful

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and of course, you're going to build a cool app.

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So here you're going to build this application and which you can, first of all, enter your name and

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then you have a little quiz where you have an image and a question, and then you can answer the questions

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as well as you can and submit the answer.

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And then you see whether the answer was correct or not.

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And you can go to the next question.

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So in this one, it's just a very basic quiz with flags and you have to guess for which country this

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flag stands.

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And then, of course, you will learn how to adjust that so you can create your very own quiz at that

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point.

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Once you're done with this quiz application in the course, you can just adjust it to your liking.

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You can make a very own quiz with however many questions you want to have, whichever image you want

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to display, and also whichever questions and answers you want to display.

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So that is the quiz at once.

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We're done with the quiz app.

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We go over to the drawing it, and this one is a little more advanced.

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But here you are going to learn very different features.

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So you're going to learn how to use views and views in a more advanced way than in any other application,

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pretty much in this whole course.

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So I think this is a very useful thing because it allows you to customize everything to its fullest

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and you will be enabled through this chapter to customize your uses as you like them.

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And along this journey, you will build this little application here and which you can draw something.

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So you can play around with brush sizes, you can change them.

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You can make the brush size a little thinner, for example.

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So if you want to draw a beautiful little smiley, as I do here, you'll be able to do so.

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And then you will learn how to import images, how to export images and share them with your friends,

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for example, via WhatsApp or whatever application you have that allows exporting and sharing.

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And you can see we are going to play around with colors and all of that.

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And also you can just.

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Redo whatever you you're drawn.

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Once we're done with the drawing up, we go to the seven minute workout app, which is a app that will

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teach you one of the most important parts of development, I'd say, and that is to use recycled views.

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So you can see that there are a bunch of intro's demos and so forth, because each time that we introduce

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a new topic that is relevant and big enough, I created an extra demo to teach the concept first before

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we then apply it in the actual application.

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So I think this is going to help you to get a better understanding and also feel more comfortable using

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the features.

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Of course, we also have exercises and most of the exercises will be inside of the actual lecture,

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so I will show you how to do something and then I will ask you to try to rebuild that with your own

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understanding of how it's done.

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And there are many things that are just coming back.

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So many features are just coming back.

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And you have to do the multiple times on every new application.

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You have to do it again, or maybe even in the same application.

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You have to use the same type of code multiple times.

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And sometimes it's just minor adjustments.

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But still it's slightly different.

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And that really helps you to get into the practice of developing real applications.

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And that's exactly what you're going to learn, right?

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So then that's the seven minute workout application you can see there is a BMI calculator in which you

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can enter your weight and height and then you will calculate whether you're fit or not.

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Then you will see a history of your exercises when you finish them.

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And of course, the exercise itself, where you can just see here, for example, jumping jacks is the

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upcoming exercise and then there's a little timer running.

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And once that's done, you will get over to this activity in which you can see which exercise you have

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to do.

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And here at the bottom, you can see there is a little risk with you, which also indicates in which

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exercise you currently are.

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So this is very.

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Adjusted and very specific, you can even see here a little dialogue which says, hey, do you really

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want to quit this exercise?

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You have come so far, so you will learn all of that.

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All right, so that's a seven minute walk out and then we go to the Happy Places app, and this one,

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you will learn how to use third party libraries quite extensively because we are going to use many of

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them here.

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And this is very, very important and super powerful because you don't want to build all of the code

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by yourself.

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You want to reuse as much code as possible and not having to build everything because so many third

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party libraries are available and they are made available by other developers that want to make our

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life easier.

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And why wouldn't we want to use that?

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And that's exactly what you will learn extensively in this chapter.

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So you're going to learn how to use many different features and also many different third party libraries.

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And by the end, you will have this little application here, so you can see you can add a little happy

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places, which you can then give a title, a description, a date when you were there, then the location

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you can search for the location or you can set the current location.

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Then you can add an image and you can save that.

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And then it will appear here in this recycle of your or in this list pretty much.

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And then you can also, of course, added that so you can view it on the map and then make changes to

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Settings and you can see here, Mt. Everest, it will display the map, so we're going to, of course,

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check out how to use Google Maps, how to use Google places and many other third party libraries.

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At this point, you are going to learn one of the most important things when it comes to developing

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and to developing real and advanced applications.

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And that is to use Jason.

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So Jason is a way to store data or to display data that can be used quite well in programming in general.

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So you can get data very well designed and you can quite quickly use it in your application and display

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accordingly.

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So however you want to display the data.

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So in this case, we're going to create a little weather app which allows us to download data from a

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free source.

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So we're going to see how to use a free source for this one.

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And of course, you will be able to apply that knowledge to whatever application you have to build.

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And many customer inquiries that I've done have been something where you had to use Jason.

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So we had to use API calls.

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We had to use the rest and so forth.

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OK, so all of these beautiful keywords that you might have heard while you're going to learn about

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those and you're going to learn how to use them and how they actually work.

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So here, for example, this is going to be the weather app where you can then see different data and.

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Yeah, for example, the temperature and so forth.

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OK, and then the final lap is the Bangar, as you can see here, 14 hours of content.

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So this is really a huge project, but it's that on purpose because it's not just stupid stuff that

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you have seen all over and over again, but it's a lot of new content that you will learn here.

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So you will learn how to use Firebase, how to use fires for how to use user management, drag and drop

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online database and so forth.

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So a bunch of very advanced and very important features when it comes to highly advanced applications.

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OK, so if you ever want to build something like a Tinder app or a Facebook or a Twitter or whatever,

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you can think of what you need to display a lot of different data, then using Firebase is a great choice

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for this.

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And we are going to build a Trello clone, which is a project management tool that I use quite extensively

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and I really like it and many other people do.

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So it's a very great application and this one is super advanced in terms of the functionality, of course.

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So you can see there are many lectures that we're going to work through and some of them are repetition.

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But that's great because then you can really apply all of the knowledge that you have gained so far

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and build those pieces yourself.

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And I will often enough give you time to try to execute that.

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Try to build parts of the application all by yourself.

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And at the end, you will have built such an application here, so you can see here we have a list of

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tasks or boards, so to speak.

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So these could be projects, right.

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And then we can go ahead and add steps here.

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So we have task lists and individual cards to which we can then assign users who are responsible for

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OK, so this is a real project management tool.

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If you have ever used Trello or any other project management tools, you will see many of the features

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in here.

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OK, so we can add cards at any time.

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So this one will be, let's say, cards two and then you will also learn how to use the drag and drop

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feature and which allows you to basically drag cards and change the position of those cards.

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So this is super cool stuff.

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And I built this application with Trello in mind.

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I thought about how do I want to teach all of these things that Trello does that will help people and

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help my students to build super advanced applications and become really good developers.

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So that at that point, I just came up with new ideas and what I wanted to add and how deep I want to

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go there to see.

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You can even add ID cards, you can delete cards, you can change the name, can select the label color

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here, which will be done.

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The color for this individual card.

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know, OK, I have to do something and they get a notification knowing, OK, well, I have a new card

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that I'm responsible for and cards could be tasks.

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So for example, furnishing a part of an application, developing something like this feature could

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be a card and they can select the due date at which the card has to be finished.

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And you can update that.

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And it goes to the real time database firebase in the cloud and it's stored permanently there.

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So, of course, we have a full user management where you can register via multiple approaches.

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We are going to use email to keep it simple.

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Then you can see you will have a profile which you can then change you can change the profile image

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here based on whatever images you have on your phone, or you can use the camera to make new pictures

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and so forth.

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So this is a fully advanced application.

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And I've looked at other courses and I have made other courses before and I've never created such an

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advanced project because many of my students asked me, Hey, Dennis, could you please make a huge

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project?

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Because all of those small projects, they're cool and all.

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But I would really like to see a huge project to really build something from scratch and all the way

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through.

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And that's exactly what we're doing here.

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So we're building this huge application and it's really prepared.

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So all of those other projects, they prepare you to build this.

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Of course, there is a lot of new stuff that you will learn, but many fundamentals that you learn throughout

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all of these other chapters, they will be necessary to build this.

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OK, so this is super duper important, in my opinion.

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And of course, you have a bunch of exercises.

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And what's even better, you can download the code of all of those videos for every single video.

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I have a version, so to speak.

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So you can download the version that you have for specific features and then you can see how to build

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those features with a step by step instruction.

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So not just in the videos, but also in the code itself, you will have an instruction on how to implement

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a specific feature.

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So this will help you.

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And I think this is something that I have not seen in other courses.

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And I really think that this is a huge changer, because when you want to build something, you, of

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course, can check out the video, but you can also just download the code and check out how it's done

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using the Step-By-Step Guides.

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You can see I am very, very excited about this course and I'm very, very proud of the work that I

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did there.

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And I hope you enjoy it, because that's really what's my main goal, that you enjoy it and when you

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enjoyed it automatically leads to you finishing it.

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And when you finish it, you will become a real Android developer.

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And that is what my huge goal is.

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That's like my life goal, right, to make as many people as possible, real developers and not just

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that, but become more happy, because if you have a better job that pays better and that just gives

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you a lot more freedom, this will make you happier.

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And I want to make people happier.

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Right.

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So that's really my goal.

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So thanks a lot for working through this very long video.

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This is maybe way too long for the first video of the course, but I still think it's important to give

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you a good understanding of what you're going to learn.

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OK, I probably super hard to get started directly, and that's why I don't want.

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To stop you from that, I see you in the next lecture and thanks a lot for being with me.