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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

Adding support for deep links

Deep links allow you to redirect users to specific parts of your application without having them go through all the intermediary screens. This technique is especially useful for marketing campaigns because it can boost user engagement while also providing a good user experience.

Deep links are usually incorporated within URI schemes or custom schemes. This allows you to configure anything from an image advertisement, text advertisement, or even a QR code that when clicked or scanned redirects you to a specific page of the app. If your app is configured to know how to handle such schemes, the user will be able to open that particular link with your application.

For example, say that for our Restaurants application, we start a marketing campaign where we include some advertisements on the internet that showcase some special restaurants. We configure the advertisements to be clickable and to redirect to the following link, which contains the ID of the...