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Modern Android 13 Development Cookbook

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803235578
Pages 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Madona S. Wambua Madona S. Wambua
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Madona S. Wambua is a Google Developer Expert in the Android category, an Android Engineer programming in Kotlin, and the founder and Chief Technology Officer of Jibu Labs. She is also a Women Tech Makers Ambassador and Co-Chair of AnitaB. She has over ten years of experience in the field and has worked on consumer-facing applications and building software development kits for developers. She has also worked on the famous Google Glass during her tenure at a startup and got an opportunity to work on interactive AR videos to transform lives through machine learning and computer vision. Madona is also a Keynote Speaker and the host of Tech Talks with Madona, a podcast geared towards supporting women and allies in tech.
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Modern Android Development Skills 2. Chapter 2: Creating Screens Using a Declarative UI and Exploring Compose Principles 3. Chapter 3: Handling the UI State in Jetpack Compose and Using Hilt 4. Chapter 4: Navigation in Modern Android Development 5. Chapter 5: Using DataStore to Store Data and Testing 6. Chapter 6: Using the Room Database and Testing 7. Chapter 7: Getting Started with WorkManager 8. Chapter 8: Getting Started with Paging 9. Chapter 9: Building for Large Screens 10. Chapter 10: Implementing Your First Wear OS Using Jetpack Compose 11. Chapter 11: GUI Alerts – What’s New in Menus, Dialog, Toast, Snackbars, and More in Modern Android Development 12. Chapter 12: Android Studio Tips and Tricks to Help You during Development 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up your emulator in Android Studio

Android Studio is a reliable and mature IDE. As a result, Android Studio has been the favored IDE for developing Android applications since 2014. Of course, you can still use other IDEs, but the advantage of Android Studio is that you do not need to install the Android SDK separately.

Getting ready

You need to have done the previous recipe to be able to follow along with this recipe since we will be setting up our emulator in order to run the project we just created.

How to do it…

This chapter seeks to be friendly to beginners and also move you smoothly toward more advanced Android as you work through the recipes.

Let’s follow these steps to see how you can set up your emulator and run your project in the Creating a Hello, Android Community App using Android Studio recipe:

  1. Navigate to Tools | Device Manager. Once the device manager is ready, you have two options: Virtual or Physical. Virtual means you will...
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Authors (1)

Profile icon Madona S. Wambua
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Madona S. Wambua is a Google Developer Expert in the Android category, an Android Engineer programming in Kotlin, and the founder and Chief Technology Officer of Jibu Labs. She is also a Women Tech Makers Ambassador and Co-Chair of AnitaB. She has over ten years of experience in the field and has worked on consumer-facing applications and building software development kits for developers. She has also worked on the famous Google Glass during her tenure at a startup and got an opportunity to work on interactive AR videos to transform lives through machine learning and computer vision. Madona is also a Keynote Speaker and the host of Tech Talks with Madona, a podcast geared towards supporting women and allies in tech.
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