Technical requirements

When building Compose-based Android projects, you usually require your day-to-day tools for Android development. However, to follow along smoothly, make sure you have the following:

• The Arctic Fox 2020.3.1 version of Android Studio. You can also use a newer Android Studio version or even Canary builds but note that the IDE interface and other generated code files might differ from the ones used throughout this book.
• The Kotlin 1.6.10 or newer plugin must be installed in Android Studio.
• Jetpack Compose 1.1.1 or greater. You should follow this chapter and use the projects with this version. You can explore newer versions if you wish, though API differences might arise.

You can find the GitHub repository containing the source code for this book here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Kickstart-Modern-Android-Development-with-Jetpack-and-Kotlin/.

To access the code presented in this chapter, navigate to the Chapter_01 directory. The code snippets presented in the first two sections can be found in the ExamplesActivity.kt file, which is located in the root directory. The project coding solution for the Restaurants app, which we will develop in the last few sections of this chapter, can be found in the chapter_1_restaurants_app Android project directory.