Hi, slightly unrelated to the thread, but do you have any resources you can recommend for modern Android UI development? (besides the basic google resources/ codelabs...etc)
Unfortunately I cannot. I've mostly taught myself by reading exactly those same specs you're talking about and watching a lot of YouTube.
I know I'm a thoroughly inadequate Android developer because I've only ever worked on a small team at a small company and have had 0 tutelage, but what I've taught myself in the past 3 years boils down to:
Libraries to use: Retrofit, RxJava, Dagger2, Room
Use AndroidX over support/compat whenever you can.
Kotlin is amazing, though I'm still learning. If you know Java then Kotlin makes a lot of sense.
Use constraint layouts so that when you try to dabble with AndroidX motion layouts you'll have an easier time.
MVVM is commonly accepted architecture, and I like it personally.
Use single activity architecture: 1 activity with many fragments is the industry standard (or it should be). Some exceptions exist but mostly that's how it works.
XML files are your friends and editing them directly is faster and often easier than the Visual Builder in Android Studio.
Be sure that when you install the emulator you have it integrating with HAXM or HyperV or whatever they have it integrate with these days: it'll make debugging on the emu a lot less painful.
