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Kickstart Modern Android Development with Jetpack and Kotlin

By : Catalin Ghita
5 (1)
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

Technical requirements

Usually, building Compose-based Android projects with Jetpack Room will require your day-to-day tools. However, to follow along with the examples 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 installed in Android Studio
  • The Restaurants app code from the previous chapter.
  • Minimal knowledge of SQL databases and queries

The starting point for this chapter is represented by the Restaurants application that was developed in the previous chapter. If you haven't followed the implementation described in the previous chapter, access the starter code for this chapter by navigating to the Chapter_05 directory of the repository. Then, import the Android project entitled chapter_5_restaurants_app...