Best Android development course: 10 compared in 2026

Best for learners who want to build Android interfaces with Jetpack Compose. It covers composables, layouts and modifiers, state and recomposition, MVVM and clean architecture, coroutines, Room, Retrofit, navigation and Hilt, through eight apps such as a tip calculator, a movie app and a weather app, plus a Firebase book app capstone.

It has 4.5 stars from more than 3,100 reviews and more than 19,000 students. It runs about 36 hours with optional Kotlin sections, and was last updated in November 2024.

Best for beginners who want Kotlin apps that also run on older phones. It includes a complete Kotlin tutorial and shows how to use the AppCompat library so your apps work on current and older Android versions, building a range of apps that demonstrate key parts of the framework.

It has 4.5 stars from more than 6,100 reviews and more than 42,000 students. It runs about 62 hours and was last updated in April 2025.

Best for beginners who want many small Java and Kotlin projects. It includes Java tutorials, then covers Android Studio, ConstraintLayout, databases and web services, MVVM with Room, Retrofit and MySQL, and Firebase, Firestore, authentication and storage, with source code for every project.

It has 4.4 stars from more than 6,800 reviews and more than 62,000 students. It runs about 65 hours with 11 quizzes, a practice test and 109 resources, and was updated in December 2025. It is the first part of a series.

Best for learners who want modern architecture and both UI approaches. Every app is built twice, with XML layouts and with Jetpack Compose, covering MVVM, coroutines, Room and Firestore, Retrofit, notifications and services, RxJava, Dagger and Hilt, and Kotlin Multiplatform, through apps such as a messenger, an Uber clone and a food app.

It has 4.4 stars from more than 400 reviews and more than 6,400 students. It runs about 74 hours with 57 quizzes, the most here, and was updated in October 2026.

Best for beginners who want Java and Kotlin taught together in context. Taught by a lead Android engineer, it starts with XML layouts and Java, then moves to Kotlin, Fragments, RecyclerViews, the Room database and MVVM, introducing each concept when the project needs it.

It has 4.5 stars from more than 2,800 reviews and more than 16,000 students. It runs about 51 hours with 10 quizzes and was last updated in March 2025.

Best for beginners who want a Flutter bootcamp made with Google's Flutter team. It covers Dart, stateful and stateless widgets, the widget tree, state management with Provider, networking with APIs, Firebase Cloud Firestore and user authentication, building more than 15 apps.

It has 4.6 stars from more than 59,000 reviews and more than 219,000 students. It runs about 28 hours and was updated in November 2025. Like the other Flutter course, it was lowered because it is not native Android development.

Best for learners who want to build Android apps in Java. It starts with Java, then covers SQLite, Architecture Components such as ViewModel, LiveData and Room, real-time data from the internet, a Firebase chat app, Material Design and simple games, ending with 14 apps including a to-do list, a calculator, a weather app and an MP3 player.

It has 4.6 stars from more than 700 reviews and more than 5,100 students. It runs about 77 hours, the longest course here, with 51 quizzes, and was updated in October 2026.

Best for beginners who want Kotlin and Android step by step with lots of testing. It covers Kotlin fundamentals and object-oriented programming, Android Studio, components and life cycles, Firebase, Git, Jetpack and publishing your app on Google Play.

It has 4.5 stars from more than 2,300 reviews and more than 16,000 students. It runs about 68 hours with 42 quizzes and was updated in October 2026.

Best for beginners who want native Android with Kotlin. It teaches Kotlin and object-oriented programming, networking and asynchronous API calls, Retrofit, GSON and Google Places, and device features such as the camera, gallery, SQLite and GPS, building apps like a Trello clone, a quiz app, a 7-minute workout app, a weather app and a drawing app.

It has 4.6 stars from more than 19,000 reviews and more than 107,000 students. It runs about 66 hours with 35 quizzes and 136 resources, and was last updated in November 2024.