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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

Introduction to Kotlin coroutines

Coroutines, introduced by JetBrains for Kotlin, provide a way to write asynchronous code in a more readable and synchronous manner. We can use them to perform background tasks and they are a great way to perform network requests and long-running tasks such as reading and writing to a database. They do these tasks off the main thread and ensure that we don’t block our main thread while performing these operations. The main benefits of using coroutines are as follows:

  • They are lightweight and easy to use.
  • They have built-in cancellation support.
  • They lower the chances of apps having memory leaks.
  • As mentioned in earlier chapters, Jetpack libraries also support and use coroutines.

We have already added the core and Android coroutines libraries in our app. Let us understand some coroutines basics before proceeding to use coroutines in our project.

Coroutine basics

In this section, we will be looking at different...

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