Android App Compatibility: the Complete K-to-P Guide - Udemy

Android fragmentation is the  most horrible thing in an Android developer's life. A new version is  released each year and year after new release gains less than a 5%  market share. Though Google is doing great work in providing Android  developers with support libraries, there are still lots of compatibility  issues.

This course will help you to make your Android apps backward-compatible  and we cover common issues faced by developers in Android. We develop in  Java using all its support libraries to show what they are and how they  allow us to fight most compatibility issues. We build a simple  application that will allow us to track car fill-ups and review gas  stations.

During this course, we take a closer look at uses for compatibility  libraries, walk through its most popular pivots, and skillfully resolve  them. Lastly, we explore a few tools for a  more effective market  understanding and investigate crashes and A/B testing.

About The Author

Jonathan Davis was first  introduced to Android development during the Fall of 2013, where he took  an introductory course in Mobile Device Programming at the University  of Cincinnati. In this course, he learned the barebones of Android, all  the way from Activities to Intents. He went on to take an Advanced  Android Development course at UC.

In the spring of 2014, he performed his first real world Android  development, when he co-op'd at a local engineering company in Blue Ash  Ohio. Here, he began to hone his programming skills and deepen his  understanding of various Android frameworks.

In the summer of 2016, he was hired full-time at the same company and  took on full responsibility as both an iOS and Android developer. In  addition to his day job, he also builds Android apps in his free time to  teach himself various APIs, and frameworks that he doesn't get the  pleasure to use during work hours. He's also a member of GDG Cincinnati  and regularly attends their monthly Android dev. lectures.

He graduated in the spring of 2017, with a Bachelor's of Science degree  in Information Technology. More focus was in Software Development. He  also has some experience with desktop and web development.