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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

5 (20)
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.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Understanding threading in WorkManager

You can think of WorkManager as any process that runs in a background thread. When we use the Worker(), and WorkManager calls the doWork() function, this action works in the background thread. In detail, the background thread comes from the Executor specified in the WorkManager configuration.

You can also create your own custom executor for your application needs, but if that’s not needed, you can use the pre-existing one. This recipe will explore how threading in a Worker() works and how to create a custom executor.

Getting ready

In this recipe, since we will be looking at examples, you can follow along by reading and seeing if this applies to you.

How to do it…

Let’s learn how threading works in WorkManager:

  1. In order to configure WorkManager manually, you will need to specify your executor. This can be done by calling WorkManager.initialize(), then passing the context, and the configuration builder...
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