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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 libraries

Jetpack Libraries are a collection of libraries and APIs from Google that help us developers create better apps using less code. They are normally created to address some pain points we, as developers, face while creating our apps. Let’s look at some of these pain points and some of the Jetpack libraries that were created to address them:

  • Storing data locally and observing changes to the data: We had to use SQLite to store data locally. Even for simple Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations, we had to write a lot of boilerplate code. We also had to write a lot of code to observe changes to the data. This is a lot of work for a simple task. Jetpack libraries, such as Room and LiveData, were created to address this pain point. Room is a library that allows us to easily store data locally. It also allows us to easily observe changes to the data. LiveData is a library that allows us to observe changes to data easily. It is also lifecycle-aware...
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