The Fast Lane to a Job Ready Android Developer

Get a 10-week individual mentorship from Philipp Lackner to acquire all skills needed for a job at a top company

– I’ve already helped hundreds of Android developers find their dream job –

You want to…

  • … acquire the skills needed for a well paid Android job?
  • … be mentored by Philipp directly?
  • … learn the skills needed in the industry 7x faster?
  • … add an industry-level Android app to your portfolio?
  • … advance in your current job and get a pay raise?

What is the drop table mentoring?

When Philipp was studying computer science, he felt like something wasn’t right with the conventional way of learning coding. The amount of theory that is taught in universities bothered him and made him think about shortcuts to learn what’s really needed in practice. Over time, he found mentors to learn from. Mentors who came straight out of practice. That was the game changer for him and his career.

While for most developers, DROP TABLE is just a command to delete a database table, Philipp’s reinterpretation is to drop what doesn’t move you forward and start doing what does. Learning takes time, but it shouldn’t take more time than necessary. That’s why Philipp decided to mentor a small group of very hungry and committed Android developers to become ready for the industry. The DROP TABLE mentoring is a direct result of that.

Become an Industry-Ready Android developer in 10 weeks

Self-Learning is not a fast way to getting a well paid job

  • Self-learning is very error-prone, since nobody tells you when you’re on the wrong path
  • Learning alone lacks a clear structure which will cause you to learn irrelevant conepts while leaving out those that matter
  • As a solo-learner, you have no relation to real practice since you’re not coding in a real work scenario

Having a mentor Is the fastest way to learn what’s required in the industry

  • Get immediate feedback on your mistakes which speeds up learning by up to 7x, since your mistakes won’t backfire later
  • Get a clear structure on what really matters, so you master what really counts in the real world
  • Learn from an experienced Android developer to find out about all the tricks & hacks you only learn by working on real projects

Get Everything to Land Jobs at top companies

  • Individual mentorship & a real work environment will equip you with everything needed for your dream job
  • Add a professional app to your portfolio to show off your skills to future companies
  • Leave no question unanswered to be 100% sure, you’ll understand any unclear concept

Your situation

  • You are an Android developer?
  • You’re employed, freelancer or looking for a job?
  • Struggling to stay up to date with the fast paced Android world?
  • You’re lacking structure to get to your goal?
  • You don’t know if the way you code is good or not?
  • You can invest 2h a day for 10 weeks?

What you need is this

  • Individual feedback on your coding style via code reviews
  • Answers on your questions as soon as they come up
  • Structured content about all relevant technical topics
  • Learning Android in a real practical environment
  • Regular checks if you’re still on the right path

To get this

A job at your dream company

or

Advancing in your current job to become a senior developer with a higher salary

or

All the technical skills you need to start as a mobile freelancer

This Is How The Mentoring Helps You to Get There

1. Build an Industry-Level Android App In 10 Weeks

  • Over 10 weeks, you’ll build Tasky, an offline-first task & event management app
  • Get professionally designed mockups, requirements & API documentation
  • This app combines everything you need to build real world apps
  • Technical requirements: Local databases, remote APIs, synchronizing local data in the background, authentication systems & token management, scheduling reminders & notifications, custom UI

2. Get Code reviews from an experienced Android developer

  • Every line of code you write for this task & event management app will be reviewed by an experienced Android developer
  • This means direct and individual feedback on 8,000 – 10,000 lines of code
  • Every issue will be highlighted – from big architectural mistakes to recommendations on renaming a variable
  • You can decide which technologies you want to use for this app to directly improve at these

3. Learn Technical topics with an exclusive video portal

  • You’ll get access to 45 detailed video lessons on Android architecture, clean code, automated testing, GitHub and selling your skills
  • You’ll acquire the skills needed to build bulletproof apps
  • This also includes ALL recorded Q&A calls from the past about this mentoring

4. Get Your questions answered 7 days a week

  • You’ll join a Slack server with Philipp, his team and lots of other committed Android developers
  • Whenever you feel stuck just ask for help
  • 7-days a week support for all your questions across the 10-week mentoring

5. Regular Q&A Live Group calls

  • Join a biweekly Zoom call with Philipp and other participants to ask him any more complicated question
  • Philipp has ready made code snippets to present you for any problem you might have with Tasky
  • You can watch the recordings in the video portal afterwards, in case you can’t attend a call

– Since this is a very time consuming mentoring, the spots are strongly limited

Philipp Lackner has over 13 years of experience in the software field. Over the past years, he built a following of over 200,000 developers on social media who trust his work. With over 10,000 sold copies of his courses and 700h+ spent for teaching Android concepts, he already helped hundreds of thousands people to learn practical skills they can immediately apply.

He has a degree in computer science, however it didn’t go as expected. The amount of theory that was taught in university made him think about a better approach to learn what is really needed in the real world. Over time, Philipp found mentors who taught him exactly that in a practical setting. That was the game changer for his career.

After having worked for dozens of companies around the globe as a consultant, Philipp now wants to teach other mobile developers what really counts for becoming an outstanding developer.

Philipp Lackner has over 13 years of experience in the software field. Over the past years, he built a following of over 200,000 developers on social media who trust his work. With over 10,000 sold copies of his courses and 700h+ spent for teaching Android concepts, he already helped hundreds of thousands people to learn practical skills they can immediately apply.

He has a degree in computer science, however it didn’t go as expected. The amount of theory that was taught in university made him think about a better approach to learn what is really needed in the real world. Over time, Philipp found mentors who taught him exactly that in a practical setting. That was the game changer for his career.

After having worked for dozens of companies around the globe as a consultant, Philipp now wants to teach other mobile developers what really counts for becoming an outstanding developer.

700H+

of Created Android content

10,000+

Enrolled Students

13

Years of Experience

Results And Case Studies From Previous Mentees

Problem:
Brady Cargle has a background in marketing, but felt like his true passion lies in Android development. However, he had no clue on how to get hands on experience in this competitive industry as a self-taught developer.

Goal:
Learning and internalizing all Android skills that matter in today’s industry to confidently nail tech interviews and get a well-paid job as an Android developer.

Solution:
Brady had to dedicate all his available free time towards learning Android development. Instead of just learning with courses that teach you exactly what to do in which order, Philipp challenged him as a mentor to not only learn the relevant programming concepts, but also how to solve future problems on his own. This secured him a job at a Fortune 500 company within a few months after the mentoring.

Brady Cargle, USA 🇺🇸

Before the mentoring

  • No job experience as an Android developer
  • Just built smaller apps on his own, but struggles to make them scale

Results after the mentoring

  • Got a well-paid job at a Fortune 500 company
  • Nailed tech interviews that were about the exact topics he learnt in the mentoring about
  • Made his passion his career

Brady Cargle, USA 🇺🇸

Problem:
Brady Cargle has a background in marketing, but felt like his true passion lies in Android development. However, he had no clue on how to get hands on experience in this competitive industry as a self-taught developer.

Goal:
Learning and internalizing all Android skills that matter in today’s industry to confidently nail tech interviews and get a well-paid job as an Android developer.

Solution:
Brady had to dedicate all his available free time towards learning Android development. Instead of just learning with courses that teach you exactly what to do in which order, Philipp challenged him as a mentor to not only learn the relevant programming concepts, but also how to solve future problems on his own. This secured him a job at a Fortune 500 company within a few months after the mentoring.

Before the mentoring

  • No job experience as an Android developer
  • Just built smaller apps on his own, but struggles to make them scale

Results after the mentoring

  • Got a well-paid job at a Fortune 500 company
  • Nailed tech interviews that were about the exact topics he learnt in the mentoring about
  • Made his passion his career

Problem:
Adriano Silva worked in a lower paid Android position in Portugal, but felt stuck in his career. He didn’t know what was missing to turn his career in the direction he wanted to.

Goal:
His goal was to find a job in a company that not only values him financially and personally, but one that’s also enjoyable and offers potential to grow as a developer.

Solution:
Getting an honest reality check on his current Android skills by building a full industry-like app from scratch while receiving tailored feedback on his current coding style to improve all his weaknesses.


Adriano Silva, Portugal 🇵🇹

Before the mentoring

  • Unhappy in his Android job
  • Was doubting his technical skills
  • Felt stuck in his career

Results after the mentoring

  • Switched to a better job
  • 1,000 EUR / month pay raise due to a promotion in this new job
  • Has the confidence to advance his career even more

Adriano Silva, Portugal 🇵🇹

Problem:
Adriano Silva worked in a lower paid Android position in Portugal, but felt stuck in his career. He didn’t know what was missing to turn his career in the direction he wanted to.

Goal:
His goal was to find a job in a company that not only values him financially and personally, but one that’s also enjoyable and offers potential to grow as a developer.

Solution:
Getting an honest reality check on his current Android skills by building a full industry-like app from scratch while receiving tailored feedback on his current coding style to improve all his weaknesses.

Before the mentoring

  • Unhappy in his Android job
  • Was doubting his technical skills
  • Felt stuck in his career

Results after the mentoring

  • Switched to a better job
  • 1,000 EUR / month pay raise due to a promotion in this new job
  • Has the confidence to advance his career even more

Problem:
Evan Dwyer was working in a full-time job as an Android developer, but felt locked down on details which made him struggle with the bigger picture: Building and architecting full apps from scratch.

Goal:
Evan has a dream: Becoming his own boss, deciding about his own time and fully controlling what he works on and who he works for. Evan wants to become a freelance app developer.

Solution:
To help Evan acquire the technical confidence to start his freelance career, he was pushed to build the biggest app he has built on his own. For the process of building this, he received just the right amount of guidance to help him learn to build things on his own without getting off the path.

Evan Dwyer, USA 🇺🇸

Before the mentoring

  • Lacked technical confidence to start freelancing
  • Hasn’t built any larger projects from scratch on his own

Results after the mentoring

  • Feels fully confidence to take on freelancing
  • Gets to decide about his own time
  • Has solid technical skills which make him a desired freelancer

Evan Dwyer, USA 🇺🇸

Problem:
Evan Dwyer was working in a full-time job as an Android developer, but felt locked down on details which made him struggle with the bigger picture: Building and architecting full apps from scratch.

Goal:
Evan has a dream: Becoming his own boss, deciding about his own time and fully controlling what he works on and who he works for. Evan wants to become a freelance app developer.

Solution:
To help Evan acquire the technical confidence to start his freelance career, he was pushed to build the biggest app he has built on his own. For the process of building this, he received just the right amount of guidance to help him learn to build things on his own without getting off the path.

Before the mentoring

  • Lacked technical confidence to start freelancing
  • Hasn’t built any larger projects from scratch on his own

Results after the mentoring

  • Feels fully confidence to take on freelancing
  • Gets to decide about his own time
  • Has solid technical skills which make him a desired freelancer

What does it mean to be industry-ready?

  • You know what makes apps scale and what it takes to avoid ending up with a huge codebase full of spaghetti code
  • You know what you need to do to make your app testable and write automated tests for it to ensure fast feedback loops
  • You understand how the workflow in the industry looks like and are able to work according to it
  • You know how to sell yourself and your skills in front of clients or companies
  • You are able to write code others and your future self can easily understand

What does it mean to be industry-ready?

  • You know what makes apps scale and what it takes to avoid ending up with a huge codebase full of spaghetti code
  • You know what you need to do to make your app testable and write automated tests for it to ensure fast feedback loops
  • You understand how the workflow in the industry looks like and are able to work according to it
  • You know how to sell yourself and your skills in front of clients or companies
  • You are able to write code others and your future self can easily understand

This Mentoring is for you, if…

  • you struggle to find your dream job as an Android developer.
  • you are working in a job already, but want to move on with your career and get a higher salary.
  • you want to stand out as a freelancer and justify rates of over 100$/h.
  • you can already build simple apps, but always end up with a codebase full of spaghetti code.
  • you feel absolutely overwhelmed from all the different sources and suggestions out there.
  • you want to take the step from a hobby Android developer to becoming industry-ready.

This Mentoring is NOT for you, if…

  • you can’t commit to code 2h a day on average for these 10 weeks. You get everything you need, but we can’t do the work for you.
  • you don’t know any Android basics yet (Activities, building simple UI, etc.).
  • you are not willing to question your current way of coding.
  • you are just looking for a course that tells you exactly how to get from A to B without teaching you to get there on your own.

The amount of available spots is strongly limited

FAQ

Do I need to know Jetpack Compose?

No, it’s fully up to you how you build the UI for your app.

What is the price of the mentoring?

If apply to this and end up being a fit, Philipp will get back to you to discuss your situation, struggles and goals. That’s also when you’ll hear about the price.

How will the code reviews be done?

Everytime, you pushed some code to your repo, you create a pull request which will be reviewed by Philipp or an experienced Android developer from his team. You will get comments on everything that can be improved with clear and specific suggestions.
After you let them know about changes, the review is done within 2 business days.

Will I lose access to the video portal after the 10 weeks are over?

No, you’ll get lifetime access to the video portal and even to all videos and recordings of live code reviews that will be added later. Without any subscription.

Will I be able to get to know other android developers with this?

Absolutely! Thanks to the regular group calls you can directly be in touch with other highly committed Android developers to connect and learn from.

Can I benefit from this if I already have a job?

For sure! In the past, Philipp has helped dozens of Android developers who were already in a job to get a promotion, a pay raise or a better job at a different company.
The DROP TABLE mentoring is for anybody who struggles to write maintainable, extendable, testable and modular code. If you already have a job and want to take your career to the next level this is just as perfect as wanting to take the step into the corporate world.

Why do i need to apply?

The DROP TABLE mentoring is only for a small group of very committed people who want to take the step from intermediate to professional Android developers. Since the amount of spots that can be offered is strictly limited, the application will be used to assess if you’re a fit.

what do i need to be able to build to apply?

Since the mentorship is an individual mentorship program, Philipp can perfectly adapt to your challenges, your coding style and you as a person which is why it’s not important that everyone is at the same level.
You should however have a bit of experience with Android, so you roughly know how to build simple UI, how to use a database & API and things like the activity lifecycle.

Can I ask Philipp anything I want?

Yes, you’ll be in direct contact with Philipp over these 10 weeks.