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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

Introduction to Jetpack Compose

Over the years, Android UI development has undergone significant transformations with various frameworks and libraries emerging to simplify the process.

Before Jetpack Compose, this is how we used to write UIs for our apps:

  • Views were inflated from XML layout files. XML-based views are still supported alongside Jetpack Compose for backward compatibility and mixed use cases where apps have both XML layouts and Jetpack Compose.
  • Themes, styles, and value resources were also defined in XML files.
  • For us to be able to access the views from XML files, we used view binding or data binding.
  • This method of writing a UI required huge effort, requiring more boilerplate code and being error prone.

Google developed Jetpack Compose as a modern declarative UI toolkit. It allows us to create UIs with less code. Layouts created in Jetpack Compose are responsive to different screen sizes and orientations. It is also easier and more productive...

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