Intro to Android Development

I am excited to announce my completion of CodePath's "Intro to Android Development" in May of 2023.

I took this 10 week course while simultaneously being enrolled at my community college's 16 week semester. During the first few weeks, we covered

• Android Studio's Gradle and Emulator

• Writing and debugging code in Kotlin

• Android's Views, Attributes, and ConstraintLayouts

• Themes and custom fonts

It was a challenge to write in Kotlin, when a lot of tutorials were written in Java. Overall though, the above coursework took 3 hours per week. After this, the difficulty was significantly increased. We covered:

• API queries, parsing JSON data

• RecyclerView and connecting it with API results

I've never done API requests before this and I discovered that the methodology of calling one can vary widely depending on the API. So even though Codepath walked us through an example, we had to figure out how to conduct the request on our own. This stumped me for several hours, but thanks to my teammates and TAs, we were able to figure out a solution that best fit our database.

Featuring API requests to PokeAPI and a Recyclerview

For our final project, we were given 2 weeks: 1 week to wireframe and flesh out the product specs, and 1 more week to develop. Our final project must utilized API requests and a RecyclerView.

Our original wireframe design

I had the pleasure of working with two other students, Kenneth and Tasneem, and together we created Carbonator, an app that allows user to view the CO2 emissions of 10 popular cars and perform a calculation.

Our final product - Carbonator

After completing API requests through Codepath and through my experience at LA Hacks, I understand why this was included in the curriculum. I hope to continue to master this skill in the future. Thank you for CodePath for this opportunity!