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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

Examining the log output


In the previous chapter, we mentioned that our app was running in debug mode on the emulator or real device; this is so that we can monitor it and get feedback when things go wrong. So, where is all this feedback?

You might have noticed a lot of scrolling text at the bottom of the Android Studio window. If not, click on the logcat tab, as shown by the highlighted area labeled as 1 in the following screenshot:

Note

Note that the emulator must be running, or a real device must be attached in debugging mode, for you to see the following window. Furthermore, if you restarted Android Studio for some reason and have not yet executed the app, then the logcat window will be empty. Refer to the first chapter to get the app running on an emulator or a real device:

You can drag the window to make it taller, just as you can in most other Windows applications, if you want to see more.

This window is called logcat, or, sometimes, it is referred to as console. It is our app's way of...