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How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838984113
Pages 794 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (4):
Alex Forrester Alex Forrester
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Eran Boudjnah Eran Boudjnah
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Alexandru Dumbravan Alexandru Dumbravan
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Jomar Tigcal Jomar Tigcal
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface
1. Creating Your First App 2. Building User Screen Flows 3. Developing the UI with Fragments 4. Building App Navigation 5. Essential Libraries: Retrofit, Moshi, and Glide 6. RecyclerView 7. Android Permissions and Google Maps 8. Services, WorkManager, and Notifications 9. Unit Tests and Integration Tests with JUnit, Mockito, and Espresso 10. Android Architecture Components 11. Persisting Data 12. Dependency Injection with Dagger and Koin 13. RxJava and Coroutines 14. Architecture Patterns 15. Animations and Transitions with CoordinatorLayout and MotionLayout 16. Launching Your App on Google Play

RxJava

RxJava is a Java implementation of Reactive Extensions (Rx), a library for reactive programming. In reactive programming, you have data streams that can be observed. When the value changes, your observers can be notified and react accordingly. For example, let's say clicking on a button is your observable and you have observers listening to it. If the user clicks on that button, your observers can react and do a specific action.

RxJava makes asynchronous data processing and handling errors simpler. Writing it the usual way is tricky and error-prone. If your task involves a chain of asynchronous tasks, it will be more complicated to write and debug. With RxJava, it can be done more easily and you will have less code, which is more readable and maintainable. RxJava also has a wide range of operators that you can use for transforming data into the type or format you need.

RxJava has three main components: observables, observers, and operators. To use RxJava, you will...

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