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Kickstart Modern Android Development with Jetpack and Kotlin

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Product type Book
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801811071
Pages 472 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Catalin Ghita Catalin Ghita
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Catalin Ghita is a Udemy Instructor and an Android Engineer proficient in Native Android Development, while also being active in Cross-platform development with React-Native and Flutter. He successfully built, deployed, and maintained huge scalable apps with millions of downloads and active users for industry giants like Burger King, Carrefour or Bankinter. He is designated to architect huge applications into scalable, maintainable and testable form and shapes. As the owner of the Coding Troops blog and Udemy instructor, he wrote articles and taught courses reaching tens of thousands of students, thereby exposing and clarifying concepts and subtleties on hot topics in Android.
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Exploring the Core Jetpack Suite and Other Libraries
2. Chapter 1: Creating a Modern UI with Jetpack Compose 3. Chapter 2: Handling UI State with Jetpack ViewModel 4. Chapter 3: Displaying Data from REST APIs with Retrofit 5. Chapter 4: Handling Async Operations with Coroutines 6. Chapter 5: Adding Navigation in Compose With Jetpack Navigation 7. Part 2: A Guide to Clean Application Architecture with Jetpack Libraries
8. Chapter 6: Adding Offline Capabilities with Jetpack Room 9. Chapter 7: Introducing Presentation Patterns in Android 10. Chapter 8: Getting Started with Clean Architecture in Android 11. Chapter 9: Implementing Dependency Injection with Jetpack Hilt 12. Chapter 10: Test Your App with UI and Unit Tests 13. Part 3: Diving into Other Jetpack Libraries
14. Chapter 11: Creating Infinite Lists with Jetpack Paging and Kotlin Flow 15. Chapter 12: Exploring the Jetpack Lifecycle Components 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

To get the most out of this book

You will need a version of Android Studio installed on your computer – the 2020.3.1 version or newer.

All code examples have been tested using Kotlin 1.6.10 and Android Studio 2020.3.1 on macOS and Windows.

Familiarity with Kotlin and the basics of Android is assumed.

For part of Chapter 3, Displaying Data from REST APIs with Retrofit, it's expected that you have a Google account.

For part of Chapter 6, Adding Offline Capabilities with Jetpack Room, it's expected that you have minimal knowledge of SQL databases and queries.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code from the book's GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.

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Authors (1)

Profile icon Catalin Ghita
LinkedIn
Catalin Ghita is a Udemy Instructor and an Android Engineer proficient in Native Android Development, while also being active in Cross-platform development with React-Native and Flutter. He successfully built, deployed, and maintained huge scalable apps with millions of downloads and active users for industry giants like Burger King, Carrefour or Bankinter. He is designated to architect huge applications into scalable, maintainable and testable form and shapes. As the owner of the Coding Troops blog and Udemy instructor, he wrote articles and taught courses reaching tens of thousands of students, thereby exposing and clarifying concepts and subtleties on hot topics in Android.
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