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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)

Using DataStore to Store Data and Testing

Modern Android Development practices help Android developers create better applications. DataStore is a data storage solution provided by the Android Jetpack library. It allows developers to store key-value pairs or complex objects asynchronously and with consistency guarantees. Data is critical in Android development, and how we save and persist data matters. In this chapter, we will explore using DataStore to persist our data and look at best practices using DataStore.

In this chapter, we’ll be covering the following recipes:

  • Implementing DataStore
  • Adding Dependency Injection to DataStore
  • Using Android Proto DataStore versus DataStore
  • Handling data migration with DataStore
  • Writing tests for our DataStore instance