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Learning Kotlin by building Android Applications

By : Eunice Adutwumwaa Obugyei, Natarajan Raman
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Learning Kotlin by building Android Applications

By: Eunice Adutwumwaa Obugyei, Natarajan Raman

Overview of this book

<p>Today Kotlin is an official programming language for Android development and is widely adopted. Kotlin is expressive, concise, and powerful. It also ensures seamless interoperability with existing Android languages like JAVA and C++, which means that it's even easier for developers to use.</p> <p>This book adopts a project-style approach, where we focus on teaching Android development by building three different Android Application: a Tic-Tac-Toe application, a location- based alarm and a To-Do list application.</p> <p>The book begins by giving you a strong grasp of the Kotlin language and its APIs as a preliminary to building stunning applications for Android. You'll learn to set up an environment and as you progress through the chapters and the building of the different applications, the difficulty level will steadily grow.</p> <p>The book also introduces you to the Android Studio IDE, which plays an integral role in Android Development. It covers Kotlin's basic programming concepts such as functions, lambdas, properties, object-oriented code, safety aspects and type parameterization, testing, and concurrency, and helps you write Kotlin code to production.</p> <p>Finally, you'll be taken through the process of releasing your app on the Google Play Store. You will also be introduced to other app distribution channels such as Amazon App Store.</p> <p>As a bonus chapter, you will also learn how to use the Google Faces API to detect faces and add fun functionalities.</p>
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Contributors

About the authors

Eunice Adutwumwaa Obugyei is a software engineer from Accra, Ghana, with over 7 years of experience in Android development. Eunice is currently a senior software engineer at DreamOval Ltd, where she focuses on backend development and native mobile development. She is young, energetic, and always looking for an opportunity to learn and improve the skills in her arsenal. She is passionate about figuring out solutions to problems and finding the simplest way out, and her love for TV series and movies is her escape from the rigors of work life. Feel free to reach out on Twitter or LinkedIn.

 

 

 

 

Natarajan Raman has close to 15 years of experience in software design and development. He is a Google-certified Nano degree holder in Android development and was invited as a guest by Google for the I/O 2017. His Android App Idea for special children got selected as one of the top 6 ideas out of 80-odd ideas, and was also featured by Google in the Code it possible program. He works for Patterns and is also the managing trustee of Dream India.

I would like to thank my parents, Mr. Raman and Mrs. Alamu Raman, my in-laws, family, friends, employer, colleagues, publishers, and my children of Vasantham (www.vasantham.org) for their support. Special thanks to Ashok and Mr. Suresh Kamath. I dedicate this to my sweet little kid, Master Siddheshwar, and my wife, Ms. Krupa, who make each day of my life beautiful.

About the reviewer

Aanand Shekhar Roy is the author of Kotlin Programming Cookbook. He has worked with many start-ups in the domain of social media management, ad:tech, and FinTech. He is currently working as a senior Android developer at PushCoin and loves to write articles and blogs on Android development. You can reach out to him on Twitter at @aanand_shekhar

This book is dedicated to all the programmers who are interested in learning about Kotlin and Android development. I would love to thank the Packt team for providing me with all the necessary resources that helped me in the reviewing process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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