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How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin
How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin

How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin: A hands-on guide to developing, testing, and publishing your first apps with Android

By Alex Forrester , Eran Boudjnah , Alexandru Dumbravan , Jomar Tigcal
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Publication date : Feb 26, 2021
Length 794 pages
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Language : English
ISBN-13 : 9781838984113
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How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin

2. Building User Screen Flows

Overview

This chapter covers the Android activity lifecycle and explains how the Android system interacts with your app. By the end of this chapter, you'll have learned how to build user journeys through different screens. You'll also be able to use activity tasks and launch modes, save and restore the state of your activity, use logs to report on your application, and share data between screens.

Introduction

The previous chapter introduced you to the core elements of Android development, from configuring your app using the AndroidManifest.xml file, working with simple activities, and the Android resource structure, to building an app with build.gradle and running an app on a virtual device. In this chapter, you'll go further and learn how the Android system interacts with your app through the Android lifecycle, how you are notified of changes to your app's state, and how you can use the Android lifecycle to respond to these changes. You'll then progress to learning how to create user journeys through your app and how to share data between screens. You'll be introduced to different techniques to achieve these goals so that you'll be able to use them in your own apps and recognize them when you see them used in other apps.

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Key benefits

  • Build apps with Kotlin, Google’s preferred programming language for Android development
  • Unlock solutions to development challenges with guidance from experienced Android professionals
  • Improve your apps by adding valuable features that make use of advanced functionality

Description

Are you keen to get started building Android 11 apps, but don’t know where to start? How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin is a comprehensive guide that will help kick-start your Android development practice. This book starts with the fundamentals of app development, enabling you to utilize Android Studio and Kotlin to get started building Android projects. You'll learn how to create apps and run them on virtual devices through guided exercises. Progressing through the chapters, you'll delve into Android’s RecyclerView to make the most of lists, images, and maps, and see how to fetch data from a web service. Moving ahead, you'll get to grips with testing, learn how to keep your architecture clean, understand how to persist data, and gain basic knowledge of the dependency injection pattern. Finally, you'll see how to publish your apps on the Google Play store. You'll work on realistic projects that are split up into bitesize exercises and activities, allowing you to challenge yourself in an enjoyable and attainable way. You'll build 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 the skills and confidence to build your own creative Android applications using Kotlin.

What you will learn

Create maintainable and scalable apps using Kotlin Understand the Android development lifecycle Simplify app development with Google architecture components Use standard libraries for dependency injection and data parsing Apply the repository pattern to retrieve data from outside sources Publish your app on the Google Play store

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Table of Contents

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

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