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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

Detecting memory leaks with LeakCanary

LeakCanary is an open-source library developed by Square that helps us detect memory leaks in our apps. The library has knowledge of the internals of the Android Framework that allows it to narrow down the cause of the memory leak. It helps reduce the Application Not Responding (ANR) errors and out-of-memory crashes in our apps. Here are some of the most common causes of memory leaks:

  • Storing instances of Activity as Context filed in an object that survives activity recreation due to configuration changes
  • Forgetting to unregister broadcast receivers, listeners, callbacks, or RxJava subscriptions when they are no longer needed
  • Storing references to Context in a background thread

LeakCanary is quite easy to set up and no code implementation is needed to use it. We just need to add the leakcanary-android dependency in our libs.version.toml file:

leakcanary-android = "com.squareup.leakcanary:leakcanary-android:2.12&quot...
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