0Starting career in Android has become trouble free now. There is a lot of content available online to start learning Android. Just type “Android development” in Google and you will be flooded with good quality blogs and tutorials for every level of expertise.
First of all the official Android developer website (developer.android.com) has hundreds of pages to browse your way from a complete novice to an expert android developer. And this site even has different ways to spoon feed you with the course - Guides, training topics, blogs, reference docs and samples, videos, devbytes, and podcasts. Could we ask for more?
And then there are thousands of developers contributing blogs and tutorials everyday to help you out with every problem you might ever have - from creating a ListAdapter, setting up your Android Studio to finding out why there is a Service class available if I still have to use a thread in Service. Still if you are feeling lazy or you just feel it is too primitive to work on some module from scratch, you can browse through the hundreds of libraries available on git or anywhere else to just integrate in your app. There seems to be everything good with this Android ecosystem but is it really helping newbies in their goal of becoming a good Android developer?
“Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there.”
The problem in fact is the abundance of content. There are too many directions to take, too many resources to follow that you can easily find yourself lost in short time. When you start getting problems at every step you will need someone to guide you specifically according to your problems. For instance, you would not like it when you have to spend 3 hours just because your Android studio has started giving compile time errors after updating to the latest version or your app has started crashing after you did minor changes in one of your xml.
It is rather easy to overcome these challenges if you already have programming experience in any other platform but can turn out to be a nightmare for the ones who are fresh out of college or those who have not gone through these sufferings as a programmer before. Youtube videos will also not help.
In case you want to take Android as career option seriously, a professional course will really help. Don’t go for those local training institutes who have included Android as a subject in their list of dozens of other subjects. Go for professionals. Those who have actually worked on this platform and who have faced and resolved the challenges. Those who have treaded the path to expertise and who have years of experience. Finding professionals is not very difficult and good thing is because Android is in so much demand, big players in corporate training in India are also offering Android course.
