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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

Our first fragment app


Let's build a fragment in its simplest possible form so that we can understand what is going on, before we start producing Fragment objects all over the place that are of genuine use.

Note

I urge all readers to go through and build this project. There is a lot of jumping around from file to file, and just reading the instructions alone can make it seem more complex than it really is. Certainly, you can copy and paste the code from the download bundle, but please also follow the steps, and create your own projects and classes. Fragments are not too tough, but their implementation, like their name suggests, is a little fragmented.

Create a new project called Simple Fragment using the Empty Activity template and leave the rest of the settings at their defaults.

Note that there is the option to create a project with a fragment, but we will learn more by doing things ourselves from scratch.

Switch to activity_main.xml and delete the default Hello world! TextView.

Now, make...