How long does one need to learn to write code before learning XML?

Question

Unfortunately, i don't have a laptop yet so i have been learning with my phone and it has made my learning slow.. and i also cant work on projects on my phone because i work with kotlin. So i wondered how long do i need to learn with my phone before learning xml(from w3schools) or i just learn both?? I thought of this idea because i think it would help me to keep my motivation since learning with a device is not that great. So what do y'all think? Should i learn both as to i think it will motivate me more?? I'm sorry if my description is too long.

Answer 1

Do your best
I am also using mobile phone because I have no laptop
here many people who has using mobile

Answer 2

XML can be learned before you learn a programming language if you like. It's just a data representation and storage format, like JSON but different from it.

Answer 3

alpha Romeo
Go on with your mobile phone in this pace with this aspiration, one day in the future this aspiration will help to get your own laptop..., ...,
There are many who has laptop with no desire to learn anything. So aspiration first then programming langs

Answer 4

alpha Romeo don't learn XML from w3school if you are focusing on Android development b/c they teach you totally different from one in Android development so learn from YouTube, pdfs or udacity
while am developing android app which its XML is totally different from w3school course

Answer 5

There maight but the XML need to be binded with java and kotlin library to make it work else it would be plain XML alpha Romeo

Answer 6

alpha Romeo yeah, I have seen aide but it have old sdk which is 26 + no kotlin support however you can practice on it
And for w3school:
They teach u that for fetching or posting XML based api
But in Android let's take examples
1
``` <androidx.constraint.constraintlayout>
```
2
```
<Foo>
```

Aren't 1 & 2 different
Even though in Android there is fixed tag like
```
<TextView> <LinearLayot>
```
You can't name with random word
Unless you make your new library
But in w3scool
```
<hi> <hello>
```

ok to make that clear in Android courses you can just learn use binded api but in w3school how to bind api

Answer 7

alpha Romeo no problem. There's no need for an external keyboard but I am thinking that it will be a pain to code with the touch screen keyboard of a mobile phone.

Answer 8

dont waste your time, no need to learn or study xml at all.

Answer 9

alpha Romeo oh OK you should have specified that and apologies as I didn't read all previous answers either. I'm not an Android dev but I guess you can learn the layout modelling xml tags in parallel with your Android coding.

Answer 10

Martin Taylor , Sonic
https://www.sololearn.com/post/793432/?ref=app

Is it xml ?

I just clicked manifest viewer of sololearn app.... but I don't know what is it ?

Answer 11

💕 Prasant 💕 ✳️ yes it is.

Answer 12

The bigger, the better

Answer 13

Everything will be fine.
The most important -
aspiration

Answer 14

Såñtösh Thanks

Answer 15

There maybe some external keyboards that work with your phone that you may want to consider before getting access to a laptop.

Answer 16

Only JS Thanks

Answer 17

Martin Taylor Thank you. Perhaps I could practice with this 'App UI Designer' on my device 👍

Answer 18

Xml is easy just jump right into it but for android it take a bit more time

Answer 19

Martin Taylor
I used an android app "Dev tools pro".

Answer 20

Ananiya Jemberu but is there any xml editor or IDE i can use on mobile?