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How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin
How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin

How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin: A practical guide to developing, testing, and publishing your first Android apps , Second Edition

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Key benefits

  • Build apps with Kotlin, Google’s preferred programming language for Android development
  • Unlock solutions to development challenges with guidance from experienced Android professionals
  • Improve your apps by adding valuable features that make use of advanced functionality

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Looking to kick-start your app development journey with Android 13, but don’t know where to start? How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin is a comprehensive guide that will help jump-start your Android development practice. This book starts with the fundamentals of app development, enabling you to utilize Android Studio and Kotlin to get started with building Android projects. You'll learn how to create apps and run them on virtual devices through guided exercises. Progressing through the chapters, you'll delve into Android's RecyclerView to make the most of lists, images, and maps, and see how to fetch data from a web service. You'll also get to grips with testing, learning how to keep your architecture clean, understanding how to persist data, and gaining basic knowledge of the dependency injection pattern. Finally, you'll see how to publish your apps on the Google Play store. You'll work on realistic projects that are split up into bitesize exercises and activities, allowing you to challenge yourself in an enjoyable and attainable way. You'll build apps to create quizzes, read news articles, check weather reports, store recipes, retrieve movie information, and remind you where you parked your car. By the end of this book, you'll have the skills and confidence to build your own creative Android applications using Kotlin.

Who is this book for?

If you want to build Android applications using Kotlin but are unsure of how and where to begin, then this book is for you. To easily grasp the concepts in this book, a basic understanding of Kotlin, or experience in a similar programming language is a must.

What you will learn

  • Create maintainable and scalable apps using Kotlin
  • Understand the Android app development lifecycle
  • Simplify app development with Google architecture components
  • Use standard libraries for dependency injection and data parsing
  • Apply the repository pattern to retrieve data from outside sources
  • Build user interfaces using Jetpack Compose
  • Explore Android asynchronous programming with Coroutines and the Flow API
  • Publish your app on the Google Play store

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micgroo Dec 18, 2023
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Love it. Fast shipping, high quality.Book is like brand new
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Juan Catalan May 19, 2023
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This book is for people without prior experience with Android app development, however knowledge of the Kotlin programming language is required. I recommend taking the free online course on Kotlin fundamentals before reading the book.The authors use a practical approach with good sample apps and detailed step-by-step instructions easy to follow along. In each chapter of the book, we find coding exercises used to illustrate the different concepts introduced. The exercises include complete code samples and explanations with screenshots. At the end of each chapter there is a proposed activity to complete on your own using what you have learnt so far. All the code is available in a companion GitHub repository.The book is divided in four parts. It starts with the Android foundation, how to create your first app and build screen flows. It continues with how to retrieve and display data obtained from a remote server. There is even chapter about Jetpack Compose. The third part of the book talks about code structure, automated tests, dependency injection and how to persist data between app launches. The final part of the book explains how to polish the app with more advanced concepts like reactive programming, architecture patters, and view animations and transitions. The last chapter is especially useful as it explains in detail how to publish the app in the Google Play store.This second edition of the book has been updated to Android 13 and the latest Android Studio. All screenshots are new and updated, some useful diagrams have been added, and each chapter starts with an enumeration of the topics covered. I found this edition better structured than the previous one.In summary an excellent book to get started with modern Android app development updated to the latest version of Android and Kotlin.
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Dalia May 19, 2023
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I highly recommend this book for aspiring native Android developers seeking to create high-quality native Android applications. This book serves as an excellent resource for both beginners and intermediate-level developers, offering comprehensive guidance, and It covers everything from setting up your development environment and the foundations of Android development, Android framework, and the Activity lifecycle, fragment lifecycle, navigation, how to fetch data from an API using Retrofit, RecyclerView, how to use Google’s Maps API, how to execute long-running background tasks using WorkManager and foreground services, build user interfaces using Jetpack Compose, testing and Room and ViewModel, Dagger’s, Hilt’s, Coroutines and Flow, MVVM architectural, creating animations and transitions with CoordinatorLayout and MotionLayout, and creating a Google Play Developer account and publishing your app to the Google Play Store.
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RAFAEL VIDINHA ROSENDO DA SILVA Jun 16, 2023
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What a great book! Is structured in an organized manner, starting with the basics, such as creating a project on Android Studio, and gradually building up to more advanced concepts. This allows beginners to grasp the fundamentals while reinforcing them for more experienced developers.The book is filled with practical examples that reinforce the concepts being discussed. This helps to solidify the understanding and encourages readers to actively apply what they have learned. Additionally, it provides clear explanations and code snippets, making it easy to follow along and replicate the examples. Another good thing is the emphasis on best practices and standards.In conclusion, I found this book as an indispensable resource for anyone interested in Android app development. Whether you are a novice or a seasoned developer, this book guides you with the knowledge and skills needed to build high-quality Android applications.
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Clapoti May 16, 2023
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I really liked the book, it has everything you need to have a really good basis to start building your own apps. Gradle build system, UI with XML and Jetpack Compose, Animations, Navigation, Network Calls, Coroutines, Recycler View, Permissions, Services, Work Manager, Notifications, Persistence, Dependency Injection, Testing... etc... and also how to publish your app to the Play Store.The book is simple to understand, it has illustrations, diagrams, code snippets, examples...It really has everything you need to get you started on the right foot.I highly recommend it.
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