Advanced Android Development with Kotlin is a course in building native Android apps with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, covering MVVM architecture, REST APIs, offline data with Room, QR code scanning, maps, Bluetooth and push notifications. It suits developers who have already built Android apps, students and teachers, and you leave able to publish an app on Google Play.
Native Android development has changed a great deal since the days of XML layouts, RecyclerView and fragments. Google now recommends building the UI with Jetpack Compose, writing code in Kotlin and following the Guide to App Architecture, which separates the UI layer from the data layer. Many examples online still rely on older libraries and patterns such as ZXing, Glide with views or hand-written SQLite, which makes them hard to apply to new apps.
This new edition is updated for Kotlin 2.4 and Jetpack Compose and moves from the basics to topics used in real projects: advanced Material 3, Navigation 3, lists with LazyColumn, MVVM with StateFlow and Hilt, REST APIs with Retrofit, image loading with Coil, offline data with Room, QR code scanning with ML Kit, Bluetooth Low Energy, maps with Maps Compose, push notifications, testing and publishing to Google Play. (3 days, 6 hours per day, 18 hours in total, Advanced level.)
Course Details
This course is a 2026 edition that replaces the previous Advanced Android Development with Kotlin course. It has been rewritten for Kotlin 2.4 and Jetpack Compose in place of XML layouts. It runs for 3 days, 6 hours per day (18 hours in total, 09:00-16:00), as lectures alternating with labs and workshops throughout. Advanced level. Learners build UIs with Compose and Material 3, structure apps with MVVM, StateFlow and Hilt, connect to REST APIs with Retrofit, store data offline with Room, scan QR codes with ML Kit, use Bluetooth Low Energy, maps and push notifications, and finish with testing and publishing on Google Play. They take home a lab guide and source code for every workshop.
Section 1: Lab: Setting Up a Kotlin 2.4 and Compose Project
Section 2: Lab: Advanced Jetpack Compose and Material 3
Section 3: Lab: Navigation 3 with Bottom Navigation and a Drawer
Section 4: Lab: Lists with LazyColumn
Section 5: Lab: MVVM with StateFlow and Hilt
Section 6: Lab: A Sample REST API with ASP.NET Core and MySQL
Section 7: Lab: REST APIs with Retrofit and Coroutines
Section 8: Lab: Loading Images with Coil
Section 9: Lab: Offline Data with Room and DataStore
Section 10: Lab: Scanning QR Codes and Barcodes with ML Kit
Section 11: Lab: Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
Section 12: Lab: Maps and Location with Maps Compose
Section 13: Lab: Push Notifications with Firebase Cloud Messaging
Section 14: Testing, Performance and Publishing on Google Play
Section 15: Workshop: An End-to-End Inventory App Capstone
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MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) splits code into three parts. The model is the repository and data sources such as a REST API or Room. The view is the composable that displays data and handles user input. The view model prepares UI state for the screen through StateFlow and survives screen rotation. Composables read the state with collectAsStateWithLifecycle and send events back to the view model, which keeps responsibilities clear and code easy to test, with Hilt managing dependencies instead of hand-written factories.
Add Retrofit and a JSON converter such as kotlinx.serialization, then create data classes that match the data the API returns. Write an interface with annotations such as @GET, @POST, @PUT and @DELETE, declaring each call as a suspend function. Build a Retrofit instance with the base URL and use it inside a repository. The view model calls the repository in viewModelScope and turns the result into UI state that tells the screen whether it is loading, succeeded or failed.
Create a Firebase project and connect the Android app to it. Get the device's FCM registration token and store it on your server. Write a class that extends FirebaseMessagingService and override onMessageReceived to receive messages and build a notification, which needs a notification channel, and on Android 13 and later you must first ask the user for the POST_NOTIFICATIONS permission. To open a related screen on tap, include the destination in the message data and pass it to the app's navigation.
It suits developers who have built Android apps and want to move to Jetpack Compose, students working on app projects, teachers who teach Android and teams that maintain an organisation's apps. You should have built some Android apps, with either XML layouts or Compose, and know Kotlin basics, app design and databases.
You will be able to build UIs with Jetpack Compose and Material 3, create bottom navigation and drawer menus with Navigation 3, structure apps with MVVM, StateFlow and Hilt, call REST APIs with Retrofit, load images with Coil, store data offline with Room and DataStore, scan QR codes with ML Kit, connect Bluetooth Low Energy devices, show maps, send push notifications and publish apps on Google Play. Participants who complete the training receive a Certificate of Completion with its own number, which can be verified online.
Yes. This course can be run in-house for your team, with examples adapted to your work, such as migrating existing XML screens to Compose or connecting the app to the APIs and Bluetooth devices your organisation uses. You can request a quotation from this page or contact us on LINE @itgenius or by phone on 02-570-8449.
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