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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)

Navigating to a new screen in Compose

We will build a register screen prompt on our login page for registering first-time users of our application. This is a standard pattern because we need to save the user’s credentials so that the next time they log in to our application, we just log them in without registering again.

Getting ready

You should have completed the previous recipe, Implementing a bottom navigation bar using navigation destinations, before getting started with this one.

How to do it…

In this recipe, we will need to use our SampleLogin project and add a new screen that users can navigate to if it is their first time using the application. This is a typical use case in many applications:

  1. Open your SampleLogin project, create a new sealed class, and call it Destination. To also ensure we maintain great packaging, add this class to util. Also, just like the bottom bar, we will have a route, but this time, we do not need any icons or titles...