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Kickstart Modern Android Development with Jetpack and Kotlin

Kickstart Modern Android Development with Jetpack and Kotlin

By : Ghita
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Kickstart Modern Android Development with Jetpack and Kotlin

Kickstart Modern Android Development with Jetpack and Kotlin

4.9 (9)
By: 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)
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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
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Part 3: Diving into Other Jetpack Libraries

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In this chapter, we learned how mobile apps communicate with remote web APIs using HTTP connections and REST APIs. Then, we created a database for our Restaurants application with the help of Firebase and populated it with content.

After that, we explored what Retrofit is and how it abstracts the complexity associated with handling network requests and responses within HTTP connections between apps and web APIs.

Then, we executed a network request with Retrofit in our Restaurants application and learned how the JSON content that is sent by the server can be parsed or deserialized by our Retrofit networking client. We also learned how to correctly wait for network responses and how to notify the application when responses arrive.

Finally, we solved some common issues that occur when our applications communicate with web APIs asynchronously to retrieve data, especially in the context of Compose.

In the next chapter, we'll explore a very efficient tool in Android...

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