📌 Course Overview

The 3-Week App Development Course is a practical, step-by-step program designed to help learners build real Android mobile applications from scratch. This course focuses on UI design, app logic, backend integration, and deployment basics, ensuring students gain industry-relevant skills.

By the end of the course, learners will design, develop, and test a fully functional Android application.

🎯 Course Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Understand mobile app development fundamentals

Design attractive user interfaces

Write clean and efficient app logic

Work with databases and APIs

Implement authentication and basic security

Build and deploy real Android apps

👨‍🎓 Who Should Enroll?

Engineering & diploma students

Beginners interested in mobile app development

Computer Science & IT students

Entrepreneurs & startup founders

Anyone who wants to build mobile apps

No prior app development experience required

🧠 Course Duration & Level

Duration: 3 Weeks

Mode: Online / Offline / Hybrid

Level: Beginner to Intermediate

📘 Detailed Course Curriculum
🗓️ Week 1: App Development Fundamentals
🔹 Day 1: Introduction to App Development

What is Mobile App Development?

Types of Mobile Apps (Native, Hybrid, Web Apps)

Android ecosystem overview

App development career paths

Tools overview (Android Studio)

🔹 Day 2: Programming Basics for Apps

Introduction to Java / Kotlin

Variables, data types & operators

Conditional statements

Loops & functions

Object-Oriented Programming basics

🔹 Day 3: Android Studio & Project Setup

Installing Android Studio

Project structure

Activity & lifecycle

Running app on emulator & real device

Debugging basics

🔹 Day 4: UI Design & Layouts

XML layout basics

Views & ViewGroups

LinearLayout, RelativeLayout, ConstraintLayout

Buttons, TextView, EditText

Material Design principles

🔹 Day 5: User Interaction & Navigation

Event handling

OnClick listeners

Intents (explicit & implicit)

Navigation between screens

Toasts & Snackbars

🗓️ Week 2: App Logic, Data & APIs
🔹 Day 6: Advanced UI Components

RecyclerView & CardView

List & Grid views

Custom adapters

Image handling

Responsive UI design

🔹 Day 7: Data Storage & Databases

SharedPreferences

SQLite database basics

Room Database (intro)

CRUD operations

Local data handling

🔹 Day 8: Working with APIs

What is an API?

REST API basics

JSON parsing

HTTP requests

API integration using Retrofit / Volley

🔹 Day 9: Authentication & Security

User login & registration

Firebase Authentication (intro)

Input validation

Basic app security practices

Handling user sessions

🔹 Day 10: App Testing & Debugging

Debugging tools

Handling crashes

Logcat usage

UI & functional testing

Performance optimization basics

🗓️ Week 3: Backend, Deployment & Final Project
🔹 Day 11: Firebase & Cloud Integration

Firebase overview

Firestore / Realtime Database

Cloud storage for images

Push notifications (intro)

🔹 Day 12: App Architecture & Best Practices

MVC / MVVM architecture

Clean code practices

Version control (Git & GitHub)

App scalability basics

🔹 Day 13: App Deployment

App signing

Generating APK / AAB

Play Store guidelines

App publishing process

App maintenance & updates

🔹 Day 14: Monetization & Analytics

Ads integration (AdMob overview)

In-app purchases (intro)

User analytics

Crash reporting

Improving user engagement

🔹 Day 15: Final Project & Presentation

Final Project: Build a complete Android App

Login & registration

Database integration

API usage

Clean UI design

Project presentation

Code review & feedback

Career roadmap discussion

🧪 Hands-On Learning

Live coding sessions

Real-time app building

Guided project development

Debugging practice

Industry-style workflow

🛠️ Tools & Technologies Covered

Android Studio

Java / Kotlin

XML

Firebase

REST APIs

Git & GitHub

🏆 Certification

Certificate of Completion

Industry-aligned curriculum

Useful for internships & freelancing