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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 DataStore

When building mobile applications, it is critical to ensure that you persist your data in order to allow for smooth loading, reduce network issues, or even handle data entirely offline. In this recipe, we will look at how to store data in our Android applications using the Modern Android Development Jetpack library called DataStore.

DataStore is a data storage solution for Android applications that enables you to store key-value pairs or any typed objects with protocol buffers. Moreover, DataStore uses Kotlin coroutines and flows to store data consistently, transactionally, and asynchronously.

If you have built Android applications before, you might have used SharedPreferences. The new Preferences DataStore aims to replace this old method. It is also fair to say that Preferences DataStore harnesses the power of SharedPreferences since they are pretty similar. In addition, Google’s documentation recommends that if you’re currently using SharedPreferences...