Build beautiful apps

Make your apps more beautiful and intuitive to use with Material Design, animations, and accessibility best practices.

 

Intro to Material Design with Compose

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Welcome to Pathway 3! This video introduces Material Design and how you can use it to improve the user experience of your app.

Material Theming with Jetpack Compose

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Learn how to add Material theming to a Compose app, by customizing color, shape, and typography.

Simple animation with Jetpack Compose

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Add a simple animation to your app in Compose, and experiment with other types of animations.

Testing for Accessibility

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Test an app for accessibility and how to make your app accessible to more users.

Practice: Build Superheroes app

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Practice what you learned about Material Design and simple animations in order to build an app that displays a list of superheroes.

Project: Create a 30 Days App

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Using everything that you learned in this unit, create your own Android app that displays 30 tips (one for each day of the month) on a topic of your choice.

What's next?

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Congratulations on completing the third unit! In this unit, you learned more intermediate programming concepts in the Kotlin language so you could build apps that display information in a list, and apply Material Design guidelines for a better user experience.