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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

Deep Diving into MVVM

We have already seen the MVVM layers and their pros and cons. In this section, we are going to implement the MMVM architecture in our app step by step. We will start with the model layer, going upwards. Since we all love to have the company of our pets, we are going to use different types of pets as our data.

Let us start by creating a data package for our project. We’ll do this by right-clicking the com.packt.chapterfive package; then, we select New | Package and name it data. Inside this data package, let us create a Pet data class that will represent our pets:

data class Pet(
    val id: Int,
    val name: String,
    val species: String
)

The Pet data class holds all the data for our pets. Next, we will create a repository interface and its implementation that allows us to get these pets. Create a new file named PetsRepository inside the data package with the following code:

interface...
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