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Kotlin Programming By Example

By : Iyanu Adelekan
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Kotlin Programming By Example

By: Iyanu Adelekan

Overview of this book

Kotlin greatly reduces the verbosity of source code. With Google having announced their support for Kotlin as a first-class language for writing Android apps, now's the time learn how to create apps from scratch with Kotlin Kotlin Programming By Example takes you through the building blocks of Kotlin, such as functions and classes. You’ll explore various features of Kotlin by building three applications of varying complexity. For a quick start to Android development, we look at building a classic game, Tetris, and elaborate on object-oriented programming in Kotlin. Our next application will be a messenger app, a level up in terms of complexity. Before moving onto the third app, we take a look at data persistent methods, helping us learn about the storage and retrieval of useful applications. Our final app is a place reviewer: a web application that will make use of the Google Maps API and Place Picker. By the end of this book, you will have gained experience of of creating and deploying Android applications using Kotlin.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we concluded our exploration of the Android application framework by learning how to secure and publish Android applications to the Google Play Store. We identified security threats to Android applications and fully explained ways to alleviate them, we also noted best practices to follow when developing applications for the Android ecosystem. We learned how to work with storage mediums and carry out networking processes securely. In addition to this, we learned how to secure Android components, such as services and broadcast receivers.

Finally, we took a deep dive into the process of application publication to the Play Store. Besides covering all the necessary steps for the successful publication of an Android application, we went a step further and published the Messenger application to the Google Play Store.

In the next chapter, we will begin the exploration...