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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

Coroutines Channels and Flows

If your coroutine is fetching a stream of data or you have multiple data sources and you process the data one by one, you can use either Channel or Flow.

Channels allow you to pass data between different coroutines. They are a hot stream of data. It will run and emit values the moment they are called, even when there's no listeners. Flows, meanwhile, are cold asynchronous streams. They only emit values when the values are collected.

To learn more about Channels and Flows, you can go to https://kotlinlang.org.

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