Google and Udacity have come together in multiple efforts to bring Android development closer to people, and this new effort is again aimed at just that. The Android Basics nanodegree is a new program to help people – specifically those with no previous experience with app development – to learn the basics of creating applications for Android.


This course is targeted to those who might suddenly have an idea for an app, but don’t really know hw to go about making that idea a reality. The courses that make up the Android Basics nanodegree are all available online and free courtesy of Udacity. Of course, the tech education outfit has other paid services that include project guidance, coaches, and career counseling among others.

This is how Google describes the courses within the program:

With courses designed by Google, you can learn skills that are applicable to building apps that solve real world problems. You can learn at your own pace to use Android Studio (Google’s official tool for Android app development) to design app user interfaces and implement user interactions using the Java programming language.

The courses walk you through step-by-step on how to build an order form for a coffee shop, an app to track pets in a shelter, an app that teaches vocabulary words from the Native American Miwok tribe, and an app on recent earthquakes in the world. At the end of the course, you will have an entire portfolio of apps to share with your friends and family.

As soon as a user finishes the course, they’ll have a choice whether to continue learning more about app development, specifically through the Android Career nanodegree. And as an incentive, Google is giving the first 50 users to complete the Basics course a chance to get a full scholarship for the Career-track course.

SOURCE: Google

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