Android Developer Roadmap

Step by step guide to becoming an Android developer.

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1 Foundation & Tools

Kotlin
Java
Android Studio
Git & GitHub/GitLab
Gradle Build System

2 Core Android Components

Activities & Lifecycles
Fragments & Lifecycles
Intents
Services
AndroidManifest.xml

3 Building the User Interface (UI)

Modern UI Toolkit:
Jetpack Compose
State Management
Legacy UI Toolkit:
XML Layouts & Views
RecyclerView

4 App Architecture

Recommended App Architecture
MVVM
Jetpack ViewModel
LiveData & StateFlow
Repository Pattern

5 Data Persistence

Room Database
Jetpack DataStore
SharedPreferences
Other Databases

6 Networking

Retrofit
OkHttp
JSON Serialization
Ktor Client

7 Concurrency

Kotlin Coroutines
Kotlin Flow
RxJava / RxKotlin

8 Dependency Injection

Hilt (Jetpack)
Koin
Dagger 2

9 Testing

Unit Tests
Integration Tests
UI Tests

10 Security

Secure Data Storage
Network Security
Code Obfuscation

11 Distribution & CI/CD

App Bundles
App Signing
Google Play Console
CI/CD

12 Keep Learning

Official Documentation
Performance Optimization
Modularization
Kotlin Multiplatform

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