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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

Designing UIs for large screens and foldables

In recent years and with the release of Material 3, there has been an increased focus on tablets and foldable devices. As such, we, as developers, must make our apps work well on these devices. In this section, we will look at how we can make our apps work well on large screens and foldables. We need to ensure our apps adapt to the different screen sizes. Making our apps responsive provides a good user experience.

Material 3 offers canonical layouts to serve as guidelines for creating UIs for large screens and foldables. These layouts are as follows:

  • List-detail view: Here, we place a list of items on the left and, on the right, we show the details of a single item.
  • Feed: Here, we arrange content elements such as cards in a customizable grid, which provides a good view of a large amount of content.
  • Supporting pane: Here, we organize app content into primary and secondary display areas. The primary area shows the main...
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