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Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners

By : John Horton
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Book Image

Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners

5 (1)
By: John Horton

Overview of this book

Android is the most popular mobile operating system in the world and Kotlin has been declared by Google as a first-class programming language to build Android apps. With the imminent arrival of the most anticipated Android update, Android 10 (Q), this book gets you started building apps compatible with the latest version of Android. It adopts a project-style approach, where we focus on teaching the fundamentals of Android app development and the essentials of Kotlin by building three real-world apps and more than a dozen mini-apps. The book begins by giving you a strong grasp of how Kotlin and Android work together before gradually moving onto exploring the various Android APIs for building stunning apps for Android with ease. You will learn to make your apps more presentable using different layouts. You will dive deep into Kotlin programming concepts such as variables, functions, data structures, Object-Oriented code, and how to connect your Kotlin code to the UI. You will learn to add multilingual text so that your app is accessible to millions of more potential users. You will learn how animation, graphics, and sound effects work and are implemented in your Android app. By the end of the book, you will have sound knowledge about significant Kotlin programming concepts and start building your own fully featured Android apps.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners
Contributors
Preface
Index

Backing up user data in Note to self


So, with our new-found insight into exceptions, let's modify our Note to self code, and then we can be introduced to JSONObject and JSONException.

First, let's make some minor modifications to our Note class.

Add some more properties that will act as the key in a key-value pair for each aspect of our Note class:

private val JSON_TITLE = "title"
private val JSON_DESCRIPTION = "description"
private val JSON_IDEA = "idea"
private val JSON_TODO = "todo"
private val JSON_IMPORTANT = "important"

Now, add a constructor and an empty default constructor that receives a JSONObject reference and throws a JSONException error. The body of the first constructor initializes each of the members that define the properties of a single Note object by calling the getString or getBoolean function of the JSONObject class, passing in the key as an argument. We also provide an empty constructor, which is required so that we can also create a Note object with uninitialized properties...