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Kickstart Modern Android Development with Jetpack and Kotlin

By : Catalin Ghita
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Book Image

Kickstart Modern Android Development with Jetpack and Kotlin

5 (1)
By: Catalin Ghita

Overview of this book

With Jetpack libraries, you can build and design high-quality, robust Android apps that have an improved architecture and work consistently across different versions and devices. This book will help you understand how Jetpack allows developers to follow best practices and architectural patterns when building Android apps while also eliminating boilerplate code. Developers working with Android and Kotlin will be able to put their knowledge to work with this condensed practical guide to building apps with the most popular Jetpack libraries, including Jetpack Compose, ViewModel, Hilt, Room, Paging, Lifecycle, and Navigation. You'll get to grips with relevant libraries and architectural patterns, including popular libraries in the Android ecosystem such as Retrofit, Coroutines, and Flow while building modern applications with real-world data. By the end of this Android app development book, you'll have learned how to leverage Jetpack libraries and your knowledge of architectural concepts for building, designing, and testing robust Android applications for various use cases.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Part 1: Exploring the Core Jetpack Suite and Other Libraries
7
Part 2: A Guide to Clean Application Architecture with Jetpack Libraries
13
Part 3: Diving into Other Jetpack Libraries

Part 1: Exploring the Core Jetpack Suite and Other Libraries

In this part, we will build a modern and robust Android app with the help of Jetpack libraries such as Compose, ViewModel, and Navigation, as well as other popular libraries, including Coroutines and Retrofit.

This section comprises the following chapters:

  • Chapter 1, Creating a Modern UI with Jetpack Compose
  • Chapter 2, Handling UI State with Jetpack ViewModel
  • Chapter 3, Displaying Data from REST APIs with Retrofit
  • Chapter 4, Handling Async Operations with Coroutines
  • Chapter 5, Adding Navigation in Compose with Jetpack Navigation