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How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin

You're reading from  How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin

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

Test-Driven Development

Let's assume that you are tasked with building an activity that displays a calculator with the add, subtract, multiply, and divide options. You must also write tests for your implementation. Typically, you would build your UI and your activity and a separate Calculator class. Then, you would write the unit tests for your Calculator class and then your activity class.

Under the Android TDD process, you would have to write your UI test with your scenarios first. In order to achieve this, you can create a skeleton UI to avoid compile-time errors. After your UI test, you would need to write your Calculator test. Here, you would also need to create the necessary methods in the Calculator class to avoid compile-time errors.

If you run your tests in this phase, they would fail. This would force you to implement your code until the tests pass. Once your Calculator tests pass, you can connect your calculator to your UI until your UI tests pass. While this...

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