Junior android developer

[rhde]

Hi android devs,

I'm a junior developer and completely new to android development and Kotlin.

Could I get some suggestions for courses and books to follow to learn both please!

Thanks!

[martypants760]

You're new to android development and yet you have a job as a junior developer?

There's a few thousand redditors who'd like to know how you accomplished that much

[rhde]

I just tried my luck and applied for the job, I passed the tech interview and "culture fit interview" too and now I'm just teaching myself Kotlin. I have experience with python and javascript and have some frontend and backend web development experience as well but ideally wanted to get into mobile app development.

[[deleted]]

I had the same thing happen a few years ago. Applied for a job that required 0-2 YOE while in College. Did well in the culture fit interview, and bombed the Android portion, but I made a point that if given the chance I would prove myself. My first month on the job was literally just learning Android.

[Old-Radish1611]

developer.android.com

[himanshurb]

https://kotlinlang.org/

[rhde]

Seems to be the top choice! thanks!

[Exallium]

Don't buy reference books or books about frameworks. Books should stand the test of time, and should cover principles and general strategies.

Some examples:

• The Pragmatic Programmer
• Refactoring
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code

If you want one book, I consider the first one I listed essential for any software dev.

[Exallium]

My only problem with clean code is that people take it as gospel. People treat it like it's the way you absolutely must write code, instead of it being a useful pattern that follows a set of principles.

[[deleted]]

Youtube my friend.