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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

Summary

In this chapter, we improved the architecture of the Restaurants App by incorporating DI.

We discussed what DI is and covered its basic concepts: dependency with its implicit or explicit types, injection, dependency containers, and manual injection.

We then examined the main benefits that DI brings to our projects: testable classes and less boilerplate code.

Finally, we covered how DI frameworks can help us with the injection of dependencies, and explored the Jetpack Hilt library as a viable solution for DI on Android. Afterward, we practiced what we learned as we incorporated DI with Hilt in our Restaurants app.

Since we incorporated DI, it's a bit clearer that our classes can be easily tested, so it's time we start writing some tests in the next chapter!