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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)

Setting up your emulator in Android Studio

Android Studio is a reliable and mature IDE. As a result, Android Studio has been the favored IDE for developing Android applications since 2014. Of course, you can still use other IDEs, but the advantage of Android Studio is that you do not need to install the Android SDK separately.

Getting ready

You need to have done the previous recipe to be able to follow along with this recipe since we will be setting up our emulator in order to run the project we just created.

How to do it…

This chapter seeks to be friendly to beginners and also move you smoothly toward more advanced Android as you work through the recipes.

Let’s follow these steps to see how you can set up your emulator and run your project in the Creating a Hello, Android Community App using Android Studio recipe:

  1. Navigate to Tools | Device Manager. Once the device manager is ready, you have two options: Virtual or Physical. Virtual means you will...