Mobile App Developer Roadmap (Android and Flutter)

Build and publish a real app on the Play Store, with either native Android or Flutter.

7 milestones · ~195 hours total

1. 1

   Programming foundations

   ~30h

   Kotlin or Dart basics, OOP and asynchronous programming.

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2. 2

   UI building blocks

   ~30h

   Layouts, navigation, lists, forms and adapting to different screen sizes.

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3. 3

   State and architecture

   ~30h

   State management, MVVM or similar, dependency injection and separating UI from data.

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4. 4

   Networking and storage

   ~30h

   REST calls, JSON parsing, local databases, caching and offline-first behaviour.

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5. 5

   Quality and performance

   ~20h

   Unit and UI tests, profiling, battery and memory use, crash reporting.

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6. 6

   Publish

   ~15h

   Signing, app bundles, Play Console setup, store listing, privacy policy and policy compliance.

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7. 7

   Portfolio

   ~40h

   Ship one complete app with real users or testers and write down what you learned from their feedback.

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