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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

The SQL syntax primer


Before we can learn how to use SQLite with Android, we need to first learn the basics of how to use SQLite in general, in a platform-neutral context.

Let's look at some example SQL code that could be used on an SQLite database directly, without any Kotlin or Android classes, and then we can more easily understand what our Kotlin code is doing later on.

SQLite example code

SQL has keywords, much like Kotlin, that cause things to happen. Here is a flavor of some of the SQL keywords we will soon be using:

  • INSERT: Allows us to add data to the database

  • DELETE: Allows us to remove data from the database

  • SELECT: Allows us to read data from the database

  • WHERE: Allows us to specify the parts of the database that match specific criteria we want to INSERT, DELETE, or SELECT from

  • FROM: Used for specifying a table or column name in a database

Note

There are many more SQLite keywords than this and, for a comprehensive list, take a look at this link: https://sqlite.org/lang_keywords.html...