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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

Running the Widget Exploration app


Try checking the radio buttons to see the time zone change on the clock. In the following image, I have photoshopped a few cropped screenshots to show that the time changes when a new time zone is selected:

Enter different values into the EditText widget, and then click the button to see it grab the text and display it on itself, as demonstrated in the screenshot at the start of this tutorial.

Change what the image in the app looks like with different combinations of checked and unchecked checkboxes and hide and show the TextView widget by using the Switch widget above it. The following screenshot displays two combinations of the checkboxes and the switch widget photoshopped together for demonstration purposes:

Note

Transparency doesn't show very clearly in a print book, so I didn't check that box. Be sure to try this out on an emulator or real device.