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Android UI Development with Jetpack Compose

By : Thomas Künneth
Book Image

Android UI Development with Jetpack Compose

By: Thomas Künneth

Overview of this book

Jetpack Compose is Android’s new framework for building fast, beautiful, and reliable native user interfaces. It simplifies and significantly accelerates UI development on Android using the declarative approach. This book will help developers to get hands-on with Jetpack Compose and adopt a modern way of building Android applications. The book is not an introduction to Android development, but it will build on your knowledge of how Android apps are developed. Complete with hands-on examples, this easy-to-follow guide will get you up to speed with the fundamentals of Jetpack Compose such as state hoisting, unidirectional data flow, and composition over inheritance and help you build your own Android apps using Compose. You'll also cover concepts such as testing, animation, and interoperability with the existing Android UI toolkit. By the end of the book, you'll be able to write your own Android apps using Jetpack Compose.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1:Fundamentals of Jetpack Compose
5
Part 2:Building User Interfaces
10
Part 3:Advanced Topics

Surviving configuration changes

Please recall that our definition of state as data that may change over time is quite broad. For example, we do not specify where the data is stored. If it resides in a database, a file, or some backend in the cloud, the app should include a dedicated persistence layer. However, until Google introduced the Android Architecture Components back in 2017, there had been practically no guidance for developers on how to structure their apps. Consequently, persistence code, UI logic, and domain logic were often crammed into one activity. Such code was difficult to maintain and often prone to errors. To make matters a little more complicated, there are situations when an activity is destroyed and recreated shortly after. For example, this happens when a user rotates a device. Certainly, data should then be remembered.

The Activity class has a few methods to handle this. For example, onSaveInstanceState() is invoked when the activity is (temporarily) destroyed...