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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
6
Part 2: Using Advanced Features
12
Part 3: Code Analysis and Tests
16
Part 4: Publishing Your App

Saving and reading data from a local database

We are going to build up on the Pets app, which displays a list of cute cats. We will save our cute cats in a local database, Room, which is a part of the Android Jetpack libraries and provides a wrapper and abstraction layer over SQLite. We will also use the repository pattern to abstract away the data source from ViewModel. The Room database provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow fluent database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite. It also has inbuilt support for Kotlin coroutines and flows to allow for asynchronous database access. Room is also compile-time safe and hence any errors in SQL queries are caught at compile time. It allows us to do all this with concise code.

To use Room in our project, we need to add its dependency to our libs.versions.toml file. Let us start by defining the Room version in the versions section as the following:

room = "2.5.2"

Next, let us add the dependencies in...

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