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Modern Android 13 Development Cookbook

By : Madona S. Wambua
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Book Image

Modern Android 13 Development Cookbook

5 (1)
By: Madona S. Wambua

Overview of this book

Android is a powerful operating system widely used in various devices, phones, TVs, wearables, automobiles, and more. This Android cookbook will teach you how to leverage the latest Android development technologies for creating incredible applications while making effective use of popular Jetpack libraries. You’ll also learn which critical principles to consider when developing Android apps. The book begins with recipes to get you started with the declarative UI framework, Jetpack Compose, and help you with handling UI states, Navigation, Hilt, Room, Wear OS, and more as you learn what's new in modern Android development. Subsequent chapters will focus on developing apps for large screens, leveraging Jetpack’s WorkManager, managing graphic user interface alerts, and tips and tricks within Android studio. Throughout the book, you'll also see testing being implemented for enhancing Android development, and gain insights into harnessing the integrated development environment of Android studio. Finally, you’ll discover best practices for robust modern app development. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build an Android application using the Kotlin programming language and the newest modern Android development technologies, resulting in highly efficient applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Creating a Hello, Android Community app using Android Studio

We will create our first Android application now that we have installed Android Studio. In addition, we will use Compose – just to mention in advance, in this recipe, we will not go in depth about Compose, as we have a dedicated chapter on Compose, which is Chapter 2, Creating Screens Using a Declarative UI and Exploring Compose Principles.

Getting ready

Before you begin, it’s helpful to know where your Android projects are for consistency. By default, Android Studio creates a package in your home directory, and the package name is AndroidStudioProjects; here, you will find all the projects you create.

You can also decide where the folder should be if you want to change it. In addition, ensure you are using the latest version of Android Studio to utilize all the great features. To find out what the latest Android version is, you can use the following link: https://developer.android.com/studio/releases...