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New Dashboard in Google Developer Profiles

Posted by Chris Demeke, Product Manager; Amani Newton, Technical Writer

The last time you signed into your Google Developer Profile, you may have noticed a change. Now, after signing-in, you’re invited to view your personal dashboard.

Google Developer Profile dashboard

This feature provides a personalized view of your activity and learning content across Google Developers, Firebase, and Android (more to come soon). With the Developer Dashboard, you can see a history of your earned badges and other activity, continue any in-progress codelabs or pathways, or start a new pathway.

This feature is just the latest step in Google’s ongoing plan to maintain a thriving ecosystem for developers and provide more tailored experiences. Here’s what’s new:

Create and organize a personalized list of developer pages that you care about

Animation of saved pages

Quickly access the pages you visit frequently using the Saved Pages feature. By selecting the bookmark icon next to any developer reference page, you can add it to your Saved Pages, and open them here at a later date.

Keep track of what you learn across Google Developers, Firebase, and Android

image showing how to keep track of what you learn on your developer profile

Your dashboard will keep track of your in-progress codelabs and pathways for you, eliminating the trouble of forgetting to bookmark. You can view a history of all of your developer achievements and activities, across Google Developers, Firebase, and Android.

Collect badges and share your achievements

3 examples of badges you can earn

Show off your familiarity with the latest technologies by passing short assessments, and earn badges that you can share on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook.

Sign in today to view your personal dashboard, or to get started, head to developer.google.com/profile and click Create profile.

New Dashboard in Google Developer Profiles

Posted by Chris Demeke, Product Manager; Amani Newton, Technical Writer

The last time you signed into your Google Developer Profile, you may have noticed a change. Now, after signing-in, you’re invited to view your personal dashboard.

Google Developer Profile dashboard

This feature provides a personalized view of your activity and learning content across Google Developers, Firebase, and Android (more to come soon). With the Developer Dashboard, you can see a history of your earned badges and other activity, continue any in-progress codelabs or pathways, or start a new pathway.

This feature is just the latest step in Google’s ongoing plan to maintain a thriving ecosystem for developers and provide more tailored experiences. Here’s what’s new:

Create and organize a personalized list of developer pages that you care about

Animation of saved pages

Quickly access the pages you visit frequently using the Saved Pages feature. By selecting the bookmark icon next to any developer reference page, you can add it to your Saved Pages, and open them here at a later date.

Keep track of what you learn across Google Developers, Firebase, and Android

image showing how to keep track of what you learn on your developer profile

Your dashboard will keep track of your in-progress codelabs and pathways for you, eliminating the trouble of forgetting to bookmark. You can view a history of all of your developer achievements and activities, across Google Developers, Firebase, and Android.

Collect badges and share your achievements

3 examples of badges you can earn

Show off your familiarity with the latest technologies by passing short assessments, and earn badges that you can share on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook.

Sign in today to view your personal dashboard, or to get started, head to developer.google.com/profile and click Create profile.

Learn Android and Kotlin with no programming experience

Posted by Kat Kuan, Developer Advocate, Android

Many people today are considering career paths that enable them to work remotely. App development allows for that style of work. For people who want a new opportunity, it’s possible to start learning Android today, even without prior programming experience.

In 2016, we released our Android Basics curriculum, which assumes no programming experience, and the response has been tremendous. Hundreds of thousands of students have been learning Android development and programming concepts simultaneously as they build apps. Since then, there have been big platform changes with four major releases of Android and support added for the Kotlin programming language. We also introduced Jetpack, a suite of libraries that make it easier to build better apps with less code. With all these new updates, it’s time to release the next generation of training content for beginners.

Today we’re announcing the launch of Android Basics in Kotlin, a new online course for people without programming experience to learn how to build Android apps. The course teaches Kotlin, a modern programming language that developers love because of its conciseness and how it increases productivity. Kotlin is quickly gaining momentum in industry. Over a single year from 2018 - 2019, Indeed Hiring Lab found a 76% increase in Kotlin jobs.*

Google announced that Android development is Kotlin-first, and 60% of professional Android developers have already adopted the language. In the Play Store, 70% of the top 1,000 apps use Kotlin. To keep pace and prepare for the future, there has never been a more opportune time to learn Android with Kotlin.

Learning to code for the first time can feel intimidating, but it is possible to learn without a technical background. From a recent Stack Overflow Developer Survey, nearly 40% of the professional developers who studied at university did not receive a formal computer science or software engineering degree.

To build your confidence, the Android Basics in Kotlin course offers step-by-step instructions on how to use Android Studio to build apps, as well as how to run them on an Android device (or virtual device). The goal is to expose you to the tools and resources that professional Android developers use. With hands-on practice, you learn the fundamentals of programming. By the end of the course, you will have completed a collection of Android apps to start building a portfolio.

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App screenshots from the course

This course is split up into units, where each unit is made up of a series of pathways. At the end of each pathway, there is a quiz to assess what you’ve learned so far. If you pass the quiz, you earn a badge that can be saved to your Google Developer Profile.
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Badges you can earn

The course is free for anyone to take. Basic computer literacy and basic math skills are recommended prerequisites. Unit 1 of the course is available today, with more units being released as they become available. If you’ve never built an app before but want to learn how, check out the Android Basics in Kotlin course.

If you already have programming experience, check out the other free training courses we offer in Kotlin:

We can’t wait to see what you build!

*from US tech job postings on Indeed.com