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How to Build Android Applications with Kotlin
How to Build Android Applications with Kotlin

How to Build Android Applications with Kotlin: A hands-on guide to developing, testing, and publishing production-grade Android 16 apps , Third Edition

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How to Build Android Applications with Kotlin

Android Foundation

This first part introduces you to Android Studio, the integrated development environment (IDE) used for Android development, and then guides you through the building blocks of Android development using the Jetpack Compose Android UI toolkit. It provides a comprehensive overview of the Android framework, working through guided exercises that reinforce the learning objectives so that this knowledge can be retained.

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Written by four veteran developers with 60+ years of collective experience, this updated third edition will jumpstart your Android development journey, focusing on Kotlin libraries and Jetpack Compose, Google’s powerful declarative UI framework. You’ll learn the fundamentals of app development, enabling you to use Android Studio, as well as get to grips with Jetpack Compose to create your first screens, build apps to run them on virtual devices through guided exercises, and implement Jetpack Compose’s layout groups to make the most of lists, images, and maps. The book has been updated with Kotlin’s powerful networking and coroutines libraries to help you fetch data in the background from a web service and manage displaying the data using Kotlin flows. You’ll learn about testing, creating clean architecture, and persisting data, as well as exploring the dependency injection pattern and learning how to publish your apps on the Google Play Store. You'll also work on realistic projects split up into bite-size exercises and activities, along with building 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 gained the skills and confidence to build your own creative Android apps using Kotlin.

Who is this book for?

This book is for beginners as well as intermediate-level developers with no prior experience in Android app development. Basic knowledge of the Kotlin programming language or experience in a similar programming language, along with a willingness to brush up on Kotlin is required.

What you will learn

  • Create maintainable and scalable apps using Kotlin
  • Grasp Android asynchronous programming with coroutines and the Flow API
  • Simplify app development with Google architecture components
  • Apply MVVM and Repository architecture patterns to standardize retrieving and displaying data from outside sources
  • Increase app stability and robustness with unit and integration tests
  • Use standard libraries for dependency injection, networking, data parsing, and persistence
  • Publish your app on the Google Play Store

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Table of Contents

23 Chapters
Android Foundation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating Your First App Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Building User Screen Flows Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Developing the UI with Jetpack Compose Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Building App Navigation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
App Components Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Essential Libraries – Ktor, Kotlin Serialization, and Coil Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Building Lists with Jetpack Compose Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Android Permissions and Google Maps Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Services, WorkManager, and Notifications Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Code Structure Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Testing with JUnit, Mockito, MockK, and Compose Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Coroutines and Flow Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Android Architecture Components Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Persisting Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Dependency Injection with Dagger, Hilt, and Koin Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Polishing and Publishing an App Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Architecture Patterns Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Advanced Jetpack Compose Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Launching Your App on Google Play Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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