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Mastering Kotlin for Android 14

Mastering Kotlin for Android 14

By : Wangereka
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Mastering Kotlin for Android 14

Mastering Kotlin for Android 14

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By: Wangereka

Overview of this book

Written with the best practices, this book will help you master Kotlin and use its powerful language features, libraries, tools, and APIs to elevate your Android apps. As you progress, you'll use Jetpack Compose and Material Design 3 to build UIs for your app, explore how to architect and improve your app architecture, and use Jetpack Libraries like Room and DataStore to persist your data locally. Using a step-by-step approach, this book will teach you how to debug issues in your app, detect leaks, inspect network calls fired by your app, and inspect your Room database. You'll also add tests to your apps to detect and address code smells. Toward the end, you’ll learn how to publish apps to the Google Play Store and see how to automate the process of deploying consecutive releases using GitHub actions, as well as learn how to distribute test builds to Firebase App Distribution. Additionally, the book covers tips on how to increase user engagement. By the end of this Kotlin book, you’ll be able to develop market-ready apps, add tests to their codebase, address issues, and get them in front of the right audience.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Part 1: Building Your App
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Part 2: Using Advanced Features
12
Part 3: Code Analysis and Tests
16
Part 4: Publishing Your App

Persisting Data Locally and Doing Background Work

To provide better user experiences, we must ensure that apps don’t fetch data every time the user opens the app. At times, the user can be in areas that do not have internet access, and this can be very frustrating when the user can’t use your app in such situations. For such scenarios, we have to store data locally. We also have to store and update the data in an efficient way that doesn’t drain the device’s battery or block the user from doing other things on the app. In this chapter, we will be exploring how to do so for our apps.

In this chapter, we will learn how to save data to a local database, Room, which is part of the Jetpack libraries. We will be able to save items and read from the Room database. Additionally, we will learn how to do long-running operations using WorkManager and some of the best practices.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

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