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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

Migrating to Kotlin Gradle DSL and using version catalogs

In Chapter 1, one of the advantages of using Kotlin that we listed is that we can also write our Gradle files in Kotlin. In this section, we will look at how we can migrate our Gradle files to Kotlin Gradle DSL. We will also look at how we can use a version catalog to manage our dependencies.

Before we migrate, let’s see some of the benefits we get from using Kotlin Gradle DSL:

  • Code autocompletion: We get hints about the completion of our code in Gradle files as we are using Kotlin.
  • Type safety: We get compile time errors when we make mistakes in our Gradle files.
  • Function calls and variable assignments: We can use functions and variables in our Gradle files the same way we use them in our Kotlin code. It makes it even easier for us to write and understand.
  • Compile time errors: We get errors at compile time when we make mistakes in our Gradle files. This helps us avoid runtime errors when building...
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