20 Best Mobile Development MOOC / Non-credit Programs Online
We compared 20 Mobile Development courses currently listed on Coursera, edX and Udemy, priced from $19.99 to $448.00. 8 come from a named university or institution, including University of California San Diego, University of Toronto and Vanderbilt University. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 20
- Price range
- $19.99 – $448.00
- Providers
- Coursera, edX, Udemy
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 20 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, edX, Udemy, matched to "Mobile Development" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $19.99 to $448.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditMobile Development and JavaScript
Offered by Meta
This course is the first in a series that will allow you to expand your skills as an Android developer into the world of cross-platform mobile development. This will allow you to use your foundations as an Android develo...
$49.00listed price -
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditCross Platform Mobile Development with React Native
Offered by Board Infinity
Course Description: Embark on your journey into the world of cross-platform mobile development with React Native. This course is designed to help you build robust, scalable, and user-friendly mobile applications that wor...
$49.00listed price -
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Internet of Things: Setting Up Your DragonBoard™ Development Platform
Offered by University of California San Diego
Do you want to develop skills to prototype mobile-enabled products using state-of-the-art technologies? In this course you will build a hardware and software development environment to guide your journey through the Inte...
$39.00listed price -
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iOS App Development with Swift
Offered by University of Toronto
Master Swift, design elegant interactions, and create a fully functioning iOS app. This Specialization covers the fundamentals of iOS application development in the Swift programming language. You’ll learn to use develop...
$49.00listed price -
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Engineering Maintainable Android Apps
Offered by Vanderbilt University
Engineering Maintainable Android Apps, which is a 4 week MOOC that shows by example various methods for engineering maintainable Android apps, including test-driven development methods and how to develop/run unit tests u...
$79.00listed price -
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Internet of Things Capstone V2: Build a Mobile Surveillance System
Offered by University of California San Diego
In the Capstone project for the Internet of Things specialization, you will design and build your own system that uses at least 2 sensors, at least 1 communication protocol and at least 1 actuator. You will have a chance...
$79.00listed price -
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iOS App Development Basics
Offered by University of Toronto
iOS App Development Basics, the second course in the iOS App Development with Swift specialization, expands your programming skills and applies them to authentic app development projects. The topics covered in this cours...
$79.00listed price -
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iOS Development for Creative Entrepreneurs
Offered by University of California, Irvine
This Specialization focuses on the basics of iOS application development. You’ll gain the skills you need to create your own app, including fluency in Objective-C and UIKit and SpriteKit user interface concepts, and you’...
$49.00listed price -
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Foundations of Objective-C App Development
Offered by University of California, Irvine
An introduction to the Objective-C programming language. This will prepare you for more extensive iOS app development and build a foundation for advanced iOS development topics. Objective-C programming requires a Mac lap...
$49.00listed price -
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Android App Development
Offered by Vanderbilt University
This Specialization enables learners to successfully apply core Java programming languages features & software patterns needed to develop maintainable mobile apps comprised of core Android components, as well as fundamen...
$49.00listed price -
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Advanced App Development in Android
Offered by Imperial College London
This Specialization is intended for learners with basic knowledge in Android app development seeking to develop knowledge in computer graphics and virtual reality in Android. Through the 4 courses, you will learn basic c...
$49.00listed price -
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5G Networking
Offered by Curtin University
This course on 5G Networking provides a thorough exploration of the latest advancements in mobile network technology. You'll gain insights into the capabilities and applications of 5G, as well as the impact it has on var...
$448.00listed price -
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Virtual Reality (VR) App Development
Offered by The University of California, San Diego
This course in Virtual Reality (VR) App Development focuses on the skills needed to create immersive VR applications. You'll explore the foundational concepts of VR, including design principles and development tools tail...
$267.30listed price -
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Vibe Coding: AI-Powered App Development for Product Managers
Offered by The University of Maryland, College Park
Turn AI into your build partner. Design and ship real apps through “vibe coding”. Describe outcomes while AI handles code and integration. Use MCP to create safe, reliable agents, and move fast from idea to prototype to...
$249.00listed price -
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Udemy MOOC / Non-creditMicrosoft Applied Skills: Create canvas apps with Power Apps
This course goes through all of the skills required for the Microsoft Applied Skills: Create and manage canvas apps with Power Apps" assessment.This can also help with Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant exam,...
$99.99listed price -
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Udemy MOOC / Non-creditCodename One 101 - Write Native Mobile Apps In Java
Codename One is the first and only tool to allow Java developers to write TRUE native applications on all mobile platforms. This 7 hour course will help you build a Codename One application from scratch.It is assumed tha...
$189.99listed price -
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Udemy MOOC / Non-creditHow to Connect LabVIEW to Data Dashboard on iOS and Android
Data Dashboard has a graphical approach which means you can program the way you think. It enables you to control, measure & monitor any device and sensor online from around the world. Also, Projects which develo...
$124.99listed price -
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Quasar, VUE 3, Firebase y desarrollo Web y Móvil
Aprende como crear aplicaciones web y mobiles completas con Vue y Quasar, haremos un recorrido por los contenidos teoricos y luego los practicos para asi aprender y dominar la creacion de aplicaciones.Vue brinda una reac...
$19.99listed price -
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Udemy MOOC / Non-creditBuild Traveling Mobile App without coding using FlutterFlow
This course teaches you how to build a fully functional traveling mobile app without coding using Figma, FlutterFlow, and Firebase. This course is for students, entrepreneurs, business owners, and early-stage startup fou...
$44.99listed price -
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Udemy MOOC / Non-creditFlutter - Concurrency & Parallelism
In the beginner friendly course we will learn about the Concurrency & Parallelism in Flutter and Dart. We will get started with a beginner friendly topic and slowly move to more advance topic, by the end of this cour...
$24.99listed price
Best Mobile Development MOOC / Non-credit Programs Online compared
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 20 priced courses on this page run from $19.99 to $448.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $428.01. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera, edX and Udemy. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 8 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of California San Diego, University of Toronto and Vanderbilt University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
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