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How to Build Android Applications with Kotlin

You're reading from   How to Build Android Applications with Kotlin A hands-on guide to developing, testing, and publishing production-grade Android 16 apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2025
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835882764
Length 654 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Alex Forrester Alex Forrester
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Eran Boudjnah Eran Boudjnah
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Android Foundation
2. Creating Your First App FREE CHAPTER 3. Building User Screen Flows 4. Developing the UI with Jetpack Compose 5. Building App Navigation 6. App Components
7. Essential Libraries – Ktor, Kotlin Serialization, and Coil 8. Building Lists with Jetpack Compose 9. Android Permissions and Google Maps 10. Services, WorkManager, and Notifications 11. Code Structure
12. Testing with JUnit, Mockito, MockK, and Compose 13. Coroutines and Flow 14. Android Architecture Components 15. Persisting Data 16. Dependency Injection with Dagger, Hilt, and Koin 17. Polishing and Publishing an App
18. Architecture Patterns 19. Advanced Jetpack Compose 20. Launching Your App on Google Play 21. Unlock Your Book’s Exclusive Benefits 22. Other Books You May Enjoy 23. Index

Developing the UI with Jetpack Compose

A composable function is any function marked with the @Compose annotation. You’ve created and used composable functions, also known as composables, in the previous chapters to achieve tasks within the exercises. Some of the composables used were built-in composables such as Text and Button, and built-in layout groups of Row and Column. You then created your own composable functions using these building blocks.

This chapter provides a more in-depth look at basic composable functions and layout groups in Jetpack Compose. It demonstrates how to use them to build the UI and respond to state changes by recomposing the UI.

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to use all the main composable functions to create UI elements and will have learned how to lay out these elements using the major composable layout groups.

In this chapter, you will cover the following topics:

  • Transitioning from XML layouts to Jetpack Compose...
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