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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

Android Studio tips and tricks

In this section, we’re going to learn about some useful tips, shortcuts, and features in Android Studio.

We’ll start by opening the MainActivity.kt file. When you open the file, you’ll be presented with the following layout:

Figure 2.8 – MainActivity file

Figure 2.8 – MainActivity file

We can now see the code inside the MainActivity.kt file, which is Kotlin source code. Above the tab with the filename, we can see a navigation bar, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 2.9 – Navigation bar

Figure 2.9 – Navigation bar

The navigation bar enables you to navigate easily and quickly between the different project files.

We can also switch to the project view to see all the resources in our project. The switch is at the very top of all the directories. By default, it is set to Android view and has more options depending on your preference. Switching to project view gives us the following folder structure:

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