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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)

Getting started with your first Wear OS in Android Studio

The Android OS is used worldwide, and one of the use cases is Wear OS (by wear, we mean smartwatches). This is good news for Android developers because this means more jobs. Furthermore, many applications now have to support Wear OS, such as Spotify, fitness tracking apps, heart monitoring apps, and more, which implies more use cases will arise, and companies will adopt building for Wear OS even if it’s only for notification purposes. Therefore, this chapter will explore how to get started.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will look into getting started with Wear OS and how to set up your virtual watch testing environment.

How to do it…

To create your first project on Wear OS in Jetpack Compose, follow these steps:

  1. First, create a new Android project in Android Studio and ensure you have the latest version of Android Studio and the Wear OS SDK installed.
  2. Then, following the procedure of...