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Mastering Android Development with Kotlin

You're reading from Mastering Android Development with Kotlin Deep dive into the world of Android to create robust applications with Kotlin

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788473699

Length 378 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Kotlin

Tools

Android

Concepts

Android Development

Author (1):

Miloš Vasić

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Starting with Android FREE CHAPTER

2. Building and Running

3. Screens

4. Connecting Screen Flow

5. Look and Feel

6. Permissions

7. Working with Databases

8. Android Preferences

9. Concurrency in Android

10. Android Services

11. Messaging

12. Backend and API

13. Tuning Up for High Performance

14. Testing

15. Migration to Kotlin

16. Deploying Your Application

Chapter 9. Concurrency in Android

In this chapter, we will explain concurrency in Android. We will give examples and advice and apply concurrency to our Journaler application. We already touched on some basics by demonstrating the use of the AsyncTask class, but now we will dig deeper.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Handlers and threads
AsyncTask
Android Looper
Delayed execution

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Authors (1)

Vasić

Vasić

Milo Vasi is a software engineer, author and open source enthusiasts. Milo holds a Bachelor degree in Programming of computer graphics and Master degree in the field of Android programming, both degrees he obtained at the Singidunum University. He published his first book Fundamental Kotlin in October 2016 and thus achieved his dream of becoming an author.

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