Terms to learn as a beginner android developer

Android app development beginners terms & definitions.

If you are learning android app development, there are a lot of words you need to get familiar with. These include technical terms, most used functions, important parts of android app structure etc.

One of the best ways to get an initial boost while learning to develop android apps is using the birds eye view method.

And I really like to use the “birds eye view” method, where I get an overall idea of how all the things work together.

After getting a rough idea of the overall picture, I try to understand each bit and piece separately.

Anyway, the following are some words/terms I keep hearing while learning Android app development.

---

Related Posts

---

These are the most basic and must know terms for a beginner android developer.

Layout - A layout defines the design structure(using XML) for each part of the individual user interfaces in your app.

Activity - An android app is a collection of one or more different activities. Each activity provides the window in which the app draws its UI.

View - View is the base class for widgets, which are used to create interactive UI components like buttons, text fields, etc.

Constraint layout - With the help of ConstraintLayout, we can position our UI components in any sort of order whether it may be horizontal or vertical.

Linear layout - LinearLayout is a view group that aligns all children in a single direction, vertically or horizontally.

Fragments - A Fragment represents a reusable portion of an app’s UI.

Navigation components - The Navigation components are designed for apps that have one main activity with multiple fragment destinations.

View binding - View binding is a feature that allows you to more easily write code that interacts with views. Once view binding is enabled in a module, it generates a binding class for each XML layout file present in that module.

View models -The ViewModel class is designed to store and manage UI-related data in a lifecycle conscious way.

MainActivity - What is the main activity in an Android application? Typically, the main activity is the first activity screen to appear when the user launches the app.