How to Build Android Applications with Kotlin - Third Edition
A hands-on guide to developing, testing, and publishing production-grade Android 16 apps
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How to Build Android Applications with Kotlin - Third Edition
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Utilize Android programming to build scalable and reliable apps using industry best practices with practical guidance from a team of Android experts with over 60 years of combined experience
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Key Features:
- Build real-world Android apps with Kotlin and the Jetpack Compose UI framework
- Leverage the latest libraries to accelerate your Android development
- Overcome development challenges with tips and tricks from experienced Android professionals
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Book Description:
Written by four veteran developers with 60+ years of collective experience, this updated third edition will jumpstart your Android development journey, focusing on Kotlin libraries and Jetpack Compose, Google's powerful declarative UI framework.
You'll learn the fundamentals of app development, enabling you to use Android Studio, as well as get to grips with Jetpack Compose to create your first screens, build apps to run them on virtual devices through guided exercises, and implement Jetpack Compose's layout groups to make the most of lists, images, and maps. The book has been updated with Kotlin's powerful networking and coroutines libraries to help you fetch data in the background from a web service and manage displaying the data using Kotlin flows. You'll learn about testing, creating clean architecture, and persisting data, as well as exploring the dependency injection pattern and learning how to publish your apps on the Google Play Store. You'll also work on realistic projects split up into bite-size exercises and activities, along with building apps to create quizzes, read news articles, check weather reports, store recipes, retrieve movie information, and remind you where you parked your car.
By the end of this book, you'll have gained the skills and confidence to build your own creative Android apps using Kotlin.
What You Will Learn:
- Create maintainable and scalable apps using Kotlin
- Grasp Android asynchronous programming with coroutines and the Flow API
- Simplify app development with Google architecture components
- Apply MVVM and Repository architecture patterns to standardize retrieving and displaying data from outside sources
- Increase app stability and robustness with unit and integration tests
- Use standard libraries for dependency injection, networking, data parsing, and persistence
- Publish your app on the Google Play Store
Who this book is for:
This book is for beginners as well as intermediate-level developers with no prior experience in Android app development. Basic knowledge of the Kotlin programming language or experience in a similar programming language, along with a willingness to brush up on Kotlin is required.
Table of Contents
- Creating Your First App
- Building User Screen Flows
- Developing the UI with Jetpack Compose
- Building App Navigation
- Essential Libraries - Ktor, Kotlin Serialization, and Coil
- Building Lists with Jetpack Compose
- Android Permissions and Google Maps
- Services, WorkManager, and Notifications
- Testing with JUnit, Mockito, MockK, and Compose
- Coroutines and Flow
- Android Architecture Components
- Persisting Data
- Dependency Injection with Dagger, Hilt, and Koin
- Architecture Patterns
- Advanced Jetpack Compose
- Launching Your App on Google Play
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