Greetings,

Today has been a great day for I finally decided what avenue I would pursue within the world of development. While undergoing studies self taught journey of web development, I found that my passion can push in many ways for I enjoy code. While knowing the passion of coding in many languages can be fun, it also cost time in which I don't have. Right now I am working at a factory as a furniture maker looking for a career change as a developer. I own an Android Phone for many years and now wanted to take on the world of creating apps for it. That's when I took the entire Saturday to do research and figure out the best roadmap to achieve the Android Developer goal. In this blog I will speak briefly of all that I was able to learn thus far.

Android Studio was played with many years ago. During that time, my chromebook I used was very low on memory which turned me away from pursuing the Android dev journey. After finding myself a laptop that can handle the large file size it is, I can dive in again. Android Studio is the primary source in which developers can develop apps locally. Android Studio can be downloaded here: https://developer.android.com/studio. This software runs on Mac and Windows, but also it is FREEEEEEEE. Yes... we as up incoming developers love that word "Free" for it seems all the good software cost these days. Shouts to the open source devs out there. Once I downloaded and installed the Android Studio, I also was able to install any SDKs and virtual devices to help with the development of apps. I was also able to learn about where the interface of the software learning. Once I had installed everything, I thought it was best to get into the basics of Kotlin.

What the hell is Kotlin? Kotlin is a programming language that is used to develop Android apps, server side apps and more. Kotlin was introduced in 2010 and was built to develop cross platform apps. That's right.... you can also build iOS apps using Kotlin. Yikes... that's a huge plus in my opinion for if you are a developer who wants to eventually get into iOS development you can use the same programming language. Many say that if you know Java then you are good to go for the learning of this language. In my research, I was able to learn about the basic syntax of Kotlin and also how to create a small "Happy Birthday" app. The studying of the syntax I did was done here: https://www.w3schools.com/kotlin/index.php . Another source I was able to use was the Android Developer site which is here: https://developer.android.com/kotlin. Very good documentation is within the learnings here as well as W3schools so be grateful. Believe me, I've seen worst in the documentation of languages. I will be reviewing more of Kotlin in future blog post to give greater insights as learning.

Until next time... Peace!

Greetings,

Today has been a great day for I finally decided what avenue I would pursue within the world of development. While undergoing studies self taught journey of web development, I found that my passion can push in many ways for I enjoy code. While knowing the passion of coding in many languages can be fun, it also cost time in which I don't have. Right now I am working at a factory as a furniture maker looking for a career change as a developer. I own an Android Phone for many years and now wanted to take on the world of creating apps for it. That's when I took the entire Saturday to do research and figure out the best roadmap to achieve the Android Developer goal. In this blog I will speak briefly of all that I was able to learn thus far.

Android Studio was played with many years ago. During that time, my chromebook I used was very low on memory which turned me away from pursuing the Android dev journey. After finding myself a laptop that can handle the large file size it is, I can dive in again. Android Studio is the primary source in which developers can develop apps locally. Android Studio can be downloaded here: https://developer.android.com/studio. This software runs on Mac and Windows, but also it is FREEEEEEEE. Yes... we as up incoming developers love that word "Free" for it seems all the good software cost these days. Shouts to the open source devs out there. Once I downloaded and installed the Android Studio, I also was able to install any SDKs and virtual devices to help with the development of apps. I was also able to learn about where the interface of the software learning. Once I had installed everything, I thought it was best to get into the basics of Kotlin.

What the hell is Kotlin? Kotlin is a programming language that is used to develop Android apps, server side apps and more. Kotlin was introduced in 2010 and was built to develop cross platform apps. That's right.... you can also build iOS apps using Kotlin. Yikes... that's a huge plus in my opinion for if you are a developer who wants to eventually get into iOS development you can use the same programming language. Many say that if you know Java then you are good to go for the learning of this language. In my research, I was able to learn about the basic syntax of Kotlin and also how to create a small "Happy Birthday" app. The studying of the syntax I did was done here: https://www.w3schools.com/kotlin/index.php . Another source I was able to use was the Android Developer site which is here: https://developer.android.com/kotlin. Very good documentation is within the learnings here as well as W3schools so be grateful. Believe me, I've seen worst in the documentation of languages. I will be reviewing more of Kotlin in future blog post to give greater insights as learning.

Until next time... Peace!