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Mastering Kotlin for Android 14

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837631711
Pages 370 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Harun Wangereka Harun Wangereka
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Harun Wangereka is a Google Developer Expert for Android and an Android engineer with over seven years of experience and currently working at Apollo Agriculture. Harun is passionate about Android development, never tired of learning, building the tech community, and helping other developers upscale their skills. He is a co-organizer at Droidcon Kenya and a former Kotlin Kenya and Android254 co-organizer. Through these communities, he has been able to impact thousands of developers. He is also an Android author at Kodeco where he has written 8 articles, published a book; Saving Data on Android, Second Edition, and is also a video course instructor. He has given numerous sessions on Android and Kotlin across different communities worldwide.
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Building Your App
2. Chapter 1: Get Started with Kotlin Android Development 3. Chapter 2: Creating Your First Android App 4. Chapter 3: Jetpack Compose Layout Basics 5. Chapter 4: Design with Material Design 3 6. Part 2: Using Advanced Features
7. Chapter 5: Architect Your App 8. Chapter 6: Network Calls with Kotlin Coroutines 9. Chapter 7: Navigating within Your App 10. Chapter 8: Persisting Data Locally and Doing Background Work 11. Chapter 9: Runtime Permissions 12. Part 3: Code Analysis and Tests
13. Chapter 10: Debugging Your App 14. Chapter 11: Enhancing Code Quality 15. Chapter 12: Testing Your App 16. Part 4: Publishing Your App
17. Chapter 13: Publishing Your App 18. Chapter 14: Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment 19. Chapter 15: Improving Your App 20. Index 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Material Design 3 and its features

The release of Material Design 3 (Material 3) came with lots of new features to help us build UIs for our apps. Here are some of the features of Material Design 3:

  • Dynamic color: This is a color system that sets the color of our apps to the color of the user’s wallpaper. The System UI also adapts to this color. This enables users to have that personalized feel for their apps. Please note that dynamic color only works for Android 12 and above devices.
  • More components: Material 3 has a new set of improved components that are available for use. Some components have new UIs and others have been added to the APIs.
  • Simplified typography: Material 3 has a much more simplified naming and grouping for typography. We have the following types: display, headline, title, body, and label, with each supporting small, medium, and large sizes. This makes it easier for us to define styles all across our apps.
  • Improved color scheme: The color...
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Authors (1)

Profile icon Harun Wangereka
LinkedIn
Harun Wangereka is a Google Developer Expert for Android and an Android engineer with over seven years of experience and currently working at Apollo Agriculture. Harun is passionate about Android development, never tired of learning, building the tech community, and helping other developers upscale their skills. He is a co-organizer at Droidcon Kenya and a former Kotlin Kenya and Android254 co-organizer. Through these communities, he has been able to impact thousands of developers. He is also an Android author at Kodeco where he has written 8 articles, published a book; Saving Data on Android, Second Edition, and is also a video course instructor. He has given numerous sessions on Android and Kotlin across different communities worldwide.
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