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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)

Implementing a Toast/Snackbar to alert users

In Android development, a Toast/Snackbar is a small pop-up message that appears on the screen, usually at the bottom. It’s used to provide brief information or feedback to the user. It is a simple way to display short messages to the user without interrupting the user’s workflow.

Getting ready

In this section, we will react to the items we created in our DropMenuItem, so you must have followed the previous recipe to continue with this one.

How to do it…

Execute the following steps to add a message when the items are clicked to tell the users they’ve picked a particular item:

  1. Creating a Toast is very straightforward in Android; you can simply do that using the Toast class the Android SDK provides. You can create a new Toast object by calling the static makeText() method of the Toast class and passing it the context, message, and duration of the Toast.
  2. Once you have created the Toast object...