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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

Using Ktlint for static analysis

According to the official documentation, ktlint is “an anti-bikeshedding Kotlin linter with a built-in formatter.” It helps us do static analysis of our Kotlin code and has a built-in rule set and formatter. It has several integrations. For Android projects, we normally use the Gradle integration. We have Ktlint Gradle (https://github.com/jlleitschuh/ktlint-gradle), which provides a wrapper plugin over the ktlint project. After adding the project to our project, it creates gradle tasks that allow us to run ktlint on our project. We are also able to do auto-formatting.

To set up Ktlint in our project, we need to add the Ktlint plugin to our project’s build.gradle.kts file in the plugins block, as follows:

id("org.jlleitschuh.gradle.ktlint") version "11.6.1"

Tap the Sync Now button at the top to add the changes to the project. This adds the Ktlint plugin to our project. We also need to set the plugin to...

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