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Android UI Development with Jetpack Compose
Android UI Development with Jetpack Compose

Android UI Development with Jetpack Compose: Bring declarative and native UIs to life quickly and easily on Android using Jetpack Compose

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  • Understand the difference between the imperative (Android View) and declarative (Jetpack Compose) approach
  • Learn about the structure of a Compose app, built-in Compose UI elements, and core concepts such as state hoisting and composition over inheritance
  • Write, test, and debug composable functions

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Jetpack Compose is Android’s new framework for building fast, beautiful, and reliable native user interfaces. It simplifies and significantly accelerates UI development on Android using the declarative approach. This book will help developers to get hands-on with Jetpack Compose and adopt a modern way of building Android applications. The book is not an introduction to Android development, but it will build on your knowledge of how Android apps are developed. Complete with hands-on examples, this easy-to-follow guide will get you up to speed with the fundamentals of Jetpack Compose such as state hoisting, unidirectional data flow, and composition over inheritance and help you build your own Android apps using Compose. You'll also cover concepts such as testing, animation, and interoperability with the existing Android UI toolkit. By the end of the book, you'll be able to write your own Android apps using Jetpack Compose.

Who is this book for?

This book is for any mobile app developer looking to understand the fundamentals of the new Jetpack Compose framework and the benefits of native development. A solid understanding of Android app development, along with some knowledge of the Kotlin programming language, will be beneficial. Basic programming knowledge is necessary to grasp the concepts covered in this book effectively.

What you will learn

  • Gain a solid understanding of the core concepts of Jetpack Compose
  • Develop beautiful, neat, and immersive UI elements that are user friendly, reliable, and performant
  • Build a complete app using Jetpack Compose
  • Add Jetpack Compose to your existing Android applications
  • Test and debug apps that use Jetpack Compose
  • Find out how Jetpack Compose can be used on other platforms

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Roshan Mar 30, 2022
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This book provides you with a strong comprehension of Android application improvement. It's for any versatile application designer hoping to comprehend the basics of the Jetpack Compose.
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Wolfram Rittmeyer Apr 04, 2022
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Das Buch bietet eine sehr gute Einführung in die Nutzung von Jetpack Compose. Die meisten wichtigen Themen werden dabei behandelt wie zum Beispiel Layouts, State Handling, Interaktion mit existierenden Komponenten oder auch die ViewModel-Nutzung. Zudem werden auch fortgeschrittenere Themen wie Animationen oder auch der Umgang mit Seiteneffekten behandelt.Besonders gut gefallen haben mir das dritte und vierte Kapitel, die auch ein wenig auf die Interna von Jetpack Compose eingehen. Das hilft, Dinge wie Performance, Custom Layouts etc. besser zu verstehen und bei Problemen damit umzugehen.An ein paar Stellen hätte ich mir allerdings mehr gewünscht. Die Slot Api (also Composable Functions in anderen zu nutzen), wird nur angerissen, dabei ist die ein sehr wichtiges Konzept, dass die Flexibilität stark erhöht. Theming wird zwar behandelt, hätte aber ausführlicher sein können. Und das Thema Navigation ist mir auch etwas zu knapp geraten. Völlig vermisst habe ich CompositionLocals.Dennoch ist es den Kauf wert - und dass es in Englisch ist, finde ich persönlich auch nicht störend.
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Samuel Stegall Mar 30, 2022
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Android UI Development with Jetpack Compose is a great resource for learning Jetpack Compose, Google's new declarative UI library for Android. The book does a great job of covering all of the high-points of things that you would want to learn when covering the different corners of the library. Some important topics covered are state management, themes, animations, and integrating composables with the traditional .xml layout system more commonly found throughout Android apps.If I were to point out flaws in the book, I would focus on two: 1. I think the book's coverage of Material You is a bit lacking. I would have liked to get deeper coverage of this topic, since it is going to be more and more important as more devices adopt Android 12 and beyond. 2. The book may seem a little bit light if you're focusing on just what is in the pages. But fortunately on this second point, if you download the code repos that go along with the book, you can code along and get much more context for the topics being discussed. If you code along, this book jumps to a 5-star book in my opinion. You really get a lot of experience if you code along.This book sits in a special place for me. I'm onboarding to a new mobile development job, and have now read and coded through 4 different Android programming books as a result, two of which cover Jetpack Compose. This app was my final book to go through in my practice, and was also the one that inspired me to create and publish an app to Google Play. Thanks to this book and my studying through it, I am now a published developer on Google Play, and comfortably onboarded into my new mobile developer role. I'm really excited about my job, and I'm very excited to see what new things come from the Android ecosystem.
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Michael S. Wolfson Mar 08, 2022
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Really liked this book because it contained the right level of info about Compose. It starts by explaining many of the fundamentals of the system (how to create layouts and use modifiers), and then goes into more complicated subjects (like State management). It describes the complex details of the system in a easy to understand manner.This book is an excellent primer on Compose, and will provide the reader with all the info they need to be successful using this new UI framework.
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Daniel Bälz Mar 30, 2022
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After receiving a review copy of the book, I was really excited to read it. Thomas already showed his great expertise in blog posts and talks and therefore I did anticipate that the book will be on the same level.What should I say: That expectation was fully met. In my opinion, the book is a very good introduction into Jetpack Compose.To be honest, I'm not the target group for the book. I've used Compose in production and already know it. Nevertheless, with my existing knowledge in mind, I really liked how the book is structured and introduces Jetpack Compose to beginners. It starts with basic examples, then explains the declarative paradigm and afterwards expands the knowledge chapter by chapter. In this journey, the important topics are explained and provide a great starting point to develop UIs with Compose. That makes it a good book for any Android developer who wants to start with Jetpack Compose.
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