Enhancing UX with Notifications and App Widgets

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Brendan Wanlass

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1. Course Overview

1. Course Overview.mp4

01:23

2. Getting Started

1. Version Check.mp4

00:15

2. Getting Started.mp4

05:26

3. Android Notifications with Kotlin

1. Android Notifications with Kotlin.mp4

04:37

2. Creating a Notification.mp4

04:00

3. Notification Anatomy.mp4

06:05

4. Notification Actions.mp4

02:54

5. Notification Channels.mp4

06:11

6. Starting the App from a Notification.mp4

01:57

4. Starting Activities with Notifications

1. Starting Activities with Notifications.mp4

02:40

2. The Back Stack.mp4

01:47

3. Pending Intents.mp4

05:01

4. Regular vs. Special Activities.mp4

02:51

5. Styling Notifications

1. Styling Notifications.mp4

04:22

2. Big Picture Style.mp4

03:57

3. Inbox Style.mp4

02:12

4. Messaging Style.mp4

10:40

6. Home Screen Widgets with Kotlin

1. Home Screen Widgets with Kotlin.mp4

08:12

2. Showing a Collection in a Widget.mp4

05:20

3. Updating a Widget.mp4

02:27

4. Launching the App from a Widget.mp4

03:33

5. Summary.mp4

02:39

Description

Notifications and app widgets are the best ways to present timely information to your users. This course will teach you how to build notifications in a variety of styles and train you how to build app widgets that communicate with your app.

What You'll Learn?

Surfacing important data to your users is critical for a user-friendly app. In this course, Android Apps with Kotlin: Notifications and App Widgets, you will learn the essential skills needed to create Android notifications and home screen app widgets. First, you will learn how to create a basic notification using Android Studio and Android's notification framework. Next, you will discover how to launch your app from a notification and present the users with a specific activity. Then, you will explore a variety of notification styles suitable for many different use cases. Finally, you will see how to provide your users with convenient data and controls right on the Android home screen with home screen app widgets. When you're finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge required to keep your users up to date and engaged with timely notifications and convenient app widgets.

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Android Development

User Experience Design

Brendan Wanlass

Instructor's Courses

Brendan is an Android and game developer. He has a passion for well designed, engaging software. He was a designer and engineer for the game Magnetic by Nature (https://store.steampowered.com/app/296510/Magnetic_By_Nature/). He is experienced with Android in the Enterprise and spoke and Google's AFW event in London in 2017. His interests include game theory and design, enterprise Android development and entrepreneurship. When Brendan isn't working on a coding project, he's probably gaming with friends or hanging out with his wife and kids.

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Pluralsight, LLC is an American privately held online education company that offers a variety of video training courses for software developers, IT administrators, and creative professionals through its website. Founded in 2004 by Aaron Skonnard, Keith Brown, Fritz Onion, and Bill Williams, the company has its headquarters in Farmington, Utah. As of July 2018, it uses more than 1,400 subject-matter experts as authors, and offers more than 7,000 courses in its catalog. Since first moving its courses online in 2007, the company has expanded, developing a full enterprise platform, and adding skills assessment modules.