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Modern Android 13 Development Cookbook

Modern Android 13 Development Cookbook

By : Madona S. Wambua
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Modern Android 13 Development Cookbook

Modern Android 13 Development Cookbook

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By: Madona S. Wambua

Overview of this book

Android is a powerful operating system widely used in various devices, phones, TVs, wearables, automobiles, and more. This Android cookbook will teach you how to leverage the latest Android development technologies for creating incredible applications while making effective use of popular Jetpack libraries. You’ll also learn which critical principles to consider when developing Android apps. The book begins with recipes to get you started with the declarative UI framework, Jetpack Compose, and help you with handling UI states, Navigation, Hilt, Room, Wear OS, and more as you learn what's new in modern Android development. Subsequent chapters will focus on developing apps for large screens, leveraging Jetpack’s WorkManager, managing graphic user interface alerts, and tips and tricks within Android studio. Throughout the book, you'll also see testing being implemented for enhancing Android development, and gain insights into harnessing the integrated development environment of Android studio. Finally, you’ll discover best practices for robust modern app development. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build an Android application using the Kotlin programming language and the newest modern Android development technologies, resulting in highly efficient applications.
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Implementing Compose in an existing XML layout-based project

Since Compose is a new UI framework, many code bases still rely heavily on XML layouts. However, many companies are opting to build new screens using Compose, and this is achievable by utilizing existing XML layouts and adding unique views using ComposeView XML tags. This recipe will look into adding a Compose view to an XML layout.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we can create a new project or opt to use an existing project that does not heavily rely on Compose. We will try to display GreetingDialog and use an XML layout to show how we can use the ComposeView tag in XML layouts. If you already have a project, you do not need to set this up; you can skip to step 4 in the preceding How to do it… section.

How to do it…

Now let us go ahead and explore how we can utilize existing XML layouts with Compose:

  1. Let’s start by creating a new project or using a preexisting one; if you create a new...

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