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Mastering Android Development with Kotlin

By : Miloš Vasić
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Mastering Android Development with Kotlin

By: Miloš Vasić

Overview of this book

Kotlin is a programming language intended to be a better Java, and it's designed to be usable and readable across large teams with different levels of knowledge. As a language, it helps developers build amazing Android applications in an easy and effective way. This book begins by giving you a strong grasp of Kotlin's features in the context of Android development and its APIs. Moving on, you'll take steps towards building stunning applications for Android. The book will show you how to set up the environment, and the difficulty level will grow steadily with the applications covered in the upcoming chapters. Later on, the book will introduce you to the Android Studio IDE, which plays an integral role in Android development. We'll use Kotlin's basic programming concepts such as functions, lambdas, properties, object-oriented code, safety aspects, type parameterization, testing, and concurrency, which will guide you through writing Kotlin code in production. We'll also show you how to integrate Kotlin into any existing Android project.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Android adapters


To present content on our main screen, we will use the Android Adapter class. The Android Framework offers adapters as a mechanism to provide items to view groups as lists or grids. To show an example of Adapter usage, we will define our own adapter implementation. Create a new package called adapter and an EntryAdapter member class extending the BaseAdapter class:

    package com.journaler.adapter 
 
    import android.annotation.SuppressLint 
    import android.content.Context 
    import android.view.LayoutInflater 
    import android.view.View 
    import android.view.ViewGroup 
    import android.widget.BaseAdapter 
    import android.widget.TextView 
    import com.journaler.R 
    import com.journaler.model.Entry 
 
    class EntryAdapter( 
        private val ctx: Context, 
        private val items: List<Entry> 
    ) : BaseAdapter() { 
 
    @SuppressLint("InflateParams", "ViewHolder") 
    override fun getView(p0: Int, p1: View?, p2: ViewGroup?): View { ...