How to develop further as a beginner Android developer?

Question

Android

I have been studying android development for 4 months (with interruptions) and I want to get a job as a Junior Android Developer in a campaign in the future. I studied the area through practice, first making pet projects, and then those components that I used in the project (arrays, buttons, functions, classes, text fields, etc.), studied thoroughly in theory, reading articles, chapters from related books with these components, watching video tutorials, etc. In 4 months of practice, I wrote 2 calculators (one added, subtracted, multiplied, divided, raised to a power of a number. And the second translated a number from one SI to another), a text editor with small functionality and some other project. And now I don't know how I can develop further to become a beginner Android developer. Learn programming by reading books and doing puzzles from it, I realized from my own experience that it is extremely inefficient, to write some kind of large and useful program that can be posted on Google Play, I think I can’t yet, and all the video courses I’ve seen on Kotlin are paid and I can find them on torrents I couldn’t, but I still can’t buy them. I do not have enough money. Here I have a question, "How can I further develop in the field of Android development?". Continue to come up with ideas for the project and develop in practice, look for some free courses on Kotlin (but again, so far I have been unsuccessfully trying to find them), or try to start learning the SQLite database and other useful tools that a beginner Android developer should be able to use? and all the video courses I've seen on Kotlin are paid and I couldn't find them on torrents, but I can't buy them yet. I do not have enough money. Here I have a question, "How can I further develop in the field of Android development?". Continue to come up with ideas for the project and develop in practice, look for some free courses on Kotlin (but again, so far I have been unsuccessfully trying to find them), or try to start learning the SQLite database and other useful tools that a beginner Android developer should be able to use? and all the video courses I've seen on Kotlin are paid and I couldn't find them on torrents, but I can't buy them yet. I do not have enough money. Here I have a question, "How can I further develop in the field of Android development?". Continue to come up with ideas for the project and develop in practice, look for some free courses on Kotlin (but again, so far I have been unsuccessfully trying to find them), or try to start learning the SQLite database and other useful tools that a beginner Android developer should be able to use?

Answer 1

1) We are looking for vacancies for android in your city
2) We write out the requirements for technologies
3) We write a project that will maximally affect most of these technologies. No, not to show at the social security (although this is also), but to at least have a basic understanding of how to work with it.
4) Trying to get a job as a trainee or a junior

Learning programming by reading books and doing puzzles from it, I realized from my own experience - this is extremely inefficient

, it is generally not effective in the modern world. Do everything that is described above, along the way every day sawing some kind of project on a scale larger than a calculator and respond to vacancies. The main thing is not to be afraid to go to social services thinking that you are not ready. Nobody is ever ready.

Answer 2

Learn programming by reading books and doing puzzles from them.

Answer 3

There are a lot of options for where to find study material. Above correctly wrote that there are books. If there is no money for books and courses, learn how to use Google and find pirate warez. Now there are a lot of them and for a meager cost you can download any programming course. There is also a lot of English-language documentation and lessons. To do this, it is enough to have skills in working with Google translator. So the main thing is motivation, if there is motivation, everything else is not a problem.