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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
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Part 2: A Guide to Clean Application Architecture with Jetpack Libraries
13
Part 3: Diving into Other Jetpack Libraries

Chapter 3: Displaying Data from REST APIs with Retrofit

In this chapter, we'll be taking a break from the Jetpack libraries and focusing on adding real data within our Restaurants application by using a very popular networking library on Android called Retrofit.

Retrofit is an HTTP client library that lets you create an HTTP client declaratively and abstracts most of the underlying complexity associated with handling network requests and responses. This library allows us to connect to a real web API and retrieve real data within our app.

In the Understanding how apps communicate with remote servers section, we will focus on exploring how mobile applications retrieve and send data to remote web APIs. In the Creating and populating your database with Firebase section, we will create a database for our Restaurants application with the help of Firebase and fill it with JSON content.

In the Exploring Retrofit as an HTTP networking client for Android section, we will learn...