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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

do-while loops


The dowhile loop works in the same way as the ordinary while loop except that the presence of a do block guarantees that the code will execute at least once, even when the condition of the while expression does not evaluate to true:

var y = 10
do {
  y++
  Log.i("In the do block and y=","$y")
}
while(y < 10)

If you copy and paste this code into one of your apps in the onCreate function, and then execute it, the output might not be what you expect. Here is the output:

In the do block and y=: 11

This is a less-used but sometimes perfect solution for a problem. Even though the condition of the while loop is false, the do block executes its code, increments the y variable to 11, and prints a message to logcat. The condition of the while loop is y < 10, so the code in the do block is not executed again. If the expression in the while condition is true, however, then the code in the do block continues to execute as though it was a regular while loop.