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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

Jetpack Compose layouts

Jetpack Compose has a variety of pre-built layouts for us to use. Before looking at the different layouts present, let us first understand how Jetpack Compose transforms state into UI.

Figure 3.4 – How Compose transforms state into UI

Figure 3.4 – How Compose transforms state into UI

From the preceding diagram, we can see that our state is transformed into a UI in the following steps:

  1. Composition

    This is the initial phase. The Compose compiler creates a tree of UI elements. Each element is a function that represents a UI element. Compose then calls the functions to create the UI tree. The composition step is responsible for determining which composables need updates and which ones can be reused. This happens by comparing a previous tree of composables with the new tree and only updating the ones that have changed. This makes this step very efficient as only elements with updates are updated.

  2. Layout

    This step happens after the composition phase. Here, the Compose...

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