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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

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned about key elements of component-centric UI frameworks. We saw some of the limitations of this approach and how the declarative paradigm can overcome them. For example, specialization takes place on a component level. If the framework is based upon inheritance, the distribution of features to children may be too broad. Jetpack Compose tackles this with the modifier mechanism, which allows us to amend functionality at a very fine-grained level; this means that composables only get the functionality they need (for example, a background color).

The remaining chapters of this book are solely based on the declarative approach. In Chapter 3, Exploring the Key Principles of Compose, we will take an even closer look at composable functions and examine the concepts of composition and recomposition. And, as promised, we will also dive deep into modifiers.