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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Android App Components - Intents, Activities, and Broadcast Receivers by Vanderbilt University

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About the Course

This 4 week MOOC builds upon the overview of Java and Android covered in Course 1 by delving deeper into core Android app components, such as intents, activities, and broadcast receivers. You will learn by example how to program these core Android components together with Android concurrency frameworks and basic Java file I/O classes (such as File and InputStream) and Android storage mechanisms (such as Shared Preferences). You'll also learn how to use the Git source code management system. Throughout this MOOC you'll work incrementally on a project involving downloading, storing, and display images from remote websites. Each week you will add additional capabilities to the project, based on material covered in the lecture videos. You'll spend roughly 4 hours per week watching video lectures, taking quizzes, and programming assignments with Java and Android....

Top reviews

AT

Oct 7, 2018

Very good examples, I recomend taking the optional homework if you can. I couldn't take every but you can learn a lot from this course.

CK

Sep 16, 2017

I really appreciate this course, too good to understand the android framework fundamentals and how they work together.

Thanks.

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By Isabelle D

Aug 14, 2019

What happened to the basics of Android development, like how to create a UI and interact with it? Receiving input and so on? I am glad I had those basics down beforehand, but someone new to android would have trouble following along

By greg a

Jul 27, 2020

There were no required programming assignments, therefore the optional assignments were not properly updated, i.e. their testing units failed to compile. I saw little evidence that the instructor responds to any student questions.

By Mandy

Nov 1, 2016

Overall it is OK, but the example framework is more like created for teach purpose which is not practical in industry. Moreover, it seems there are many incorrect part in the assignment especially optional code assignments.

By Ilham

Dec 20, 2020

The content is fantastic but I would've liked more graded assignments with intents and broadcast receivers. Furthermore, the optional assignments have several build issues unlike MOOC1

By Nafi S

Aug 17, 2020

Codes provided were buggy. Could not run in Android Studio. There was no good work-around this issue in forums either. Other than that, a good course. Made a lot of topics clearer.

By Henock A

Nov 29, 2022

I like this course and am planning to stick with it till the end but i rather find the app review sessions boring I prefer when instructors writes the code not reading it.

By Kristopher G

Oct 8, 2017

Great conceptual overview of the topics, although a bit too immersive. The module would benefit from simpler exercises to consolidate a student's understanding

By Margerite B

Jun 25, 2017

I good a overview of the topics but I don't understand them well enough to implement them. For me the course is too fast.

By Ilia K

Jul 30, 2021

I would like to get more detailed information about intent, broadcast recievers and activities. I need more code tasks.

By Lukas B Z

Jul 26, 2022

The presentations are good, but I need more instructions to actually know what to do in the programming assignments.

By Balazs B

Aug 19, 2017

The second part of the course was developing overly complicated apps, for downloading imageges.

Disappointed

:(

By Rajatendu D

Dec 16, 2018

Understanding this course was really difficult.Should have used easier techniques to teach students.

By Bavlly m

Jul 7, 2020

i could understand some parts of the sample code and the explanation wasn't good enough

By Jordi G

Jan 28, 2021

I think it should cover more basic examples before increasing difficulty

By Jay K

Aug 19, 2021

good for learning concept. but the practice projects are just way off.

By ALLADWAR S S

May 2, 2020

the codes provided for practice are a sudden jump in complexity

By madalv

Aug 16, 2022

Too much boring theoretical stuff.

By Scott W

Jan 31, 2017

Not enough coding opportunities.

By Vasu D S

Jul 3, 2019

Please try to include more code

By Ada_rash

Jul 6, 2020

Not good explanation of codes

By Dhananjay S

Jul 5, 2021

good but not satisfactory

By MOUSSILIOU M F

Aug 25, 2021

excellent cours

By Rashi S

Oct 9, 2022

It is good

By Christopher E

Jan 16, 2022

I had very high expectations after taking the preceding course in the "Android App Development Specialization" - however, I'm afraid that I had a somewhat poor experience with this one. Giving the course two stars was a difficult decision. There's definitely a lot of useful information here, and I think the course left me with a solid conceptual understanding of how Android intents, activities, and broadcasts receivers work. The main problem I had is that the course felt somewhat disjointed: There's a brief module on git, which seems a little out of place with regard to the rest of the material - especially since there's no real application for it in the rest of the course (except perhaps cloning demo repositories). I don't feel like the lectures provided adequate preparation for the programming assignments (granted, the assignments were optional). Most of the time I spent working on them wasn't spent designing, implementing, or reading documentation - it was spent trying to figure out which pieces of documentation I should be looking for to get started. This was an issue I struggled with particularly in the first assignment, which as far as I could tell involved method calls that weren't addressed until the following week.

By AbdulAhad

May 9, 2023

This course is not much good for beginners who are trying to learn making android apps from scratch.

1. the discussions are almost dead.

2. Course focuses more on theory, rather than practice or practical.

3. This is not a tutorial at all. Sections (a few lines) of code are explained, rather than what each line does, or why are certain methods used, what the parameters given mean and do or what other arguments/ parameters these method use? and stuff like that, basically a lot of stuff is not explained, many questions are left unanswered.