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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 Age Database app


In this chapter, we will focus on creating the NavigationView and populating it with four Fragment classes and their respective layouts. In the next chapter, we will learn about, and implement, the database functionality.

Here is what our NavigationView looks like in all its glory. Note that many of the options, and most of the appearance and decoration, is provided by default when using the NavigationView Activity template:

The four main options are what we will add to the UI. They are Insert, Delete, Search, and Results. The layouts are shown, and their purposes described, next.

Insert

The first screen allows the user to insert a person's name and their associated age into the database:

This simple layout has two EditText widgets and a button. The user will enter a name and an age, and then click the INSERT button to add them to the database.

Delete

This screen is even simpler. The user will enter a name in the EditText widget and click the button:

If the name entered...