Announcing New Beginning Android Debugging Course!

Announcing Our New Beginning Android Debugging Course!

Debugging is your number-one responsibility as an Android developer. You need to do everything within your power to make sure you don’t ship any nasty bugs!

Learn how to use the plethora of debugging tools in Android Studio, in our new Beginning Android Debugging course!

Keep reading to hear more about it from course instructor Aldo Olivares:

Why should I take your Beginning Android Debugging course?

"Android Studio includes many tools that allow you to debug errors in your app by displaying the value of variables and expressions at run time. It also includes a layout inspector to help you test your layouts and compare them with design mockups.

In this course, you'll learn everything you need to know to get started debugging your Android app, including how to create log statements, add breakpoints to your code, use the Android Studio profiling tools and so much more!"

How can this course help with a common pain point in Android development?

"Some developers prefer to create layouts using Kotlin code along with a design library such as Anko. While this is a perfectly reasonable and viable approach, it’s sometimes a little trickier to debug layouts built this way, as compared to XML layouts.

If you find yourself in a situation like the above, you can use the layout inspector to take a snapshot of your layout at runtime and inspect all of its properties including width, height, and margins."

Can you please share a cool Android debugging tip with us?

"Crashlytics is a lightweight Firebase library that sends you crash reports along with detailed information about a device, such as Android version, manufacturer, model and more.

The best part about using Crashlytics is that you only need to follow three easy steps to use it in your Android app:

1. Create a Firebase project

2. Add Firebase dependencies

3. Add Crashlytics dependencies

And that's it! With just a few lines of code, Crashlytics logs real-time data to your Firebase console without needing to modify your source code."

Is there anything else we should know about your Beginning Android Debugging course?

"There are many tools that help you debug your app, including (but not limited to) Android Profiler, Android Debugger, Log Class, Layout Inspector and Bug Reports.

Take some time to play around with these tools; they can save you a ton of time when developing and debugging your apps."

Aldo's Beginning Android Debugging course is available for subscribers now!

— Ray