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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)

JetBrains Toolbox and essential plugins to know

JetBrains Toolbox is a software management tool that allows developers to manage and install JetBrains IDEs and related tools on their computers. JetBrains is a software company that provides powerful IDEs (namely IntelliJ) for various programming languages, such as Java, Kotlin, Python, Ruby, and JavaScript. In other words, a plugin is simply any class that implements the plugin interface.

Here are some JetBrains Toolbox features and reasons why you should try using it:

  • You can easily download and install any JetBrains IDE from Toolbox. It also ensures that you have the latest version of the IDE installed on your computer.
  • Toolbox automatically checks for updates and keeps all the installed JetBrains IDEs and plugins up to date, which means if your current Android Studio is not stable, you can revert to a more stable version.
  • You can manage your JetBrains licenses and activate/deactivate them from Toolbox.
  • Toolbox...