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This lesson is just an introductory video to the Challenge program, so in this lesson I will try to explain my situation, motivation and goals towards this course.

In this lesson, we'll learn how to create and run our first simple Android app. In doing so, we'll explore how to create simple layouts for Android, how Android runs on the phone and the IDE Android Studio.

In this lesson we'll harness the power of the Internet by connecting our apps to the cloud! We'll learn how to make requests to an API and visualize what's returned in our Android app, with an emphasis on performance. We'll also explore modifying the Action Bar of our app to add menu items.

Many apps need the ability to display large lists of data. We'll learn how to do this efficiently with Adapters and the RecyclerView class. By the end of this lesson, we'll be efficiently showing off many rows data.

This lesson is all about making multi-screen apps using Intents. We'll learn how to use explicit intents to open up different app screens. We'll also learn about implicit intents, which are a powerful part of the Android framework that allows us to send and receive data from other apps, such as Google maps, Chrome and a host of social media apps.

One of the critical parts of Android any good developer needs to understand is the Android Lifecycle. In this lesson we'll learn about how activities are created and destroyed. We'll also learn how to properly persist data between rotations of the device.

In this lesson, we'll learn how to give users a customized experience by creating Preference screens.

In this lesson we'll start our exploration into data persistence on Android by implementing a SQLite database.

This lesson build off the last by introducing Content Providers. Content Providers are a core Android Framework component that help us provide and manage access to our app's data. In this lesson, we'll learn how to leverage a content provider to get data from other apps on the phone.

In this lesson we'll get to make your own Content Provider! We will follow a step by step guide to create our own Content Provider.

In this lesson we'll learn about how to effectively run jobs in the background, create notifications and periodically schedule long running background processes.

This lesson is all about building a user interface that is well-organized and accessible. We’ll be building a sample app where we’ll learn about different styles of layouts, views and view groups, as well as data binding, and accessibility.

In this lesson we'll give final touches to the UI, reviewing the Android Design Principles, play with fonts & colors, and how to keep the design consistent across the app and organized via styles and themes. Finally we will learn how to make UIs for different devices and screen sizes.

The Android SDK is a wide and complex framework and after these three months we have just scratched the surface, so what we can we do from here?