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Welcome to the Master Android 8

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software development course with Kotlin.

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So my name is Tim Buchalka, as you can see on

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the screen there and my co-instructor is

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Jean Paul Roberts. So we'd like to start

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out by thanking you for investing in

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this course and just to let you know,

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that this is our goal to get you up to

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speed as an Android developer in the

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quickest possible time. Now this

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course is a companion to our master

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Android development course with Java and

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covers pretty much the same topics but

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it uses Kotlin rather than Java.

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Now Google have made Kotlin the first-class

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language for Android development it is

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possible to use other languages such as

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Python for example but at the moment

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only Java and Kotlin and natively

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supported by the Android runtime. Now I

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know that you're probably itchy to get

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started with the programming but there's

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just a few things that we need to go

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through first and I promise that I'll

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keep this as brief as I possibly can.

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Now there's over 25 hours of content in

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the course right now and we plan to

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continue adding in content until Google

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releases the next version of Android

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Android P whatever that was to add for

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there are Java version of this course is

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already over 50 hours of content and

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this course is probably the largest and

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most comprehensive Android course out

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there and it's just gonna get bigger

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and better so stay tuned for that

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knowing that the course will continually

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get updated. Now if you find a problem

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with a video somewhere please let myself

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or Jean Paul know and that's because we

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really want to give you the best

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possible Android training and even there

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between us we've got a collective 60

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plus years of software development

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experience, we are here in and we do make

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mistakes very occasionally, seriously

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though let us know if you do find

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something wrong with the video and we'll

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endeavor to put it right as soon as

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possible and finally I advise the best way

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to use this course is just dive in and

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get started. So what are you waiting for?

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I'll see you in the next video.