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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

General debugging tips and tricks

Android Studio provides us with a variety of features that help us debug our code. Some of the features are listed in the following points:

  • Logcat
  • Stack Traces
  • Breakpoints

Let us look at each of these closely.

Logcat

Logcat in Android Studio displays log messages in real-time from our apps. Each log message has a priority level attached to it. We add log messages in our app using the Log class. This class offers different priority levels that we can use to log messages. The different priority levels are as follows:

  • V: Verbose (lowest priority)
  • D: Debug
  • I: Info
  • W: Warning
  • E: Error
  • F: Fatal
  • S: Silent (highest priority)

We use the preceding letters to specify the log level. For example, if we want to log a message with the debug level, we will use the following code:

Log.d("TAG", "Message")

The first parameter is the tag. The tag is used to identify the source...

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