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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)

Adding Dependency Injection to DataStore

Dependency Injection is an important design pattern in software engineering, and its use in Android app development can lead to cleaner and more maintainable code. When it comes to DataStore in Android, which is a modern data storage solution introduced in Android Jetpack, adding Dependency Injection can bring several benefits:

  • By using Dependency Injection, you can separate the concerns of creating an instance of DataStore from the code that uses it. This means that your business logic code will not have to worry about how to create a DataStore instance and can instead focus on what it needs to do with the data.
  • Dependency Injection makes it easier to write unit tests for your app. By injecting a mock DataStore instance into your tests, you can ensure that your tests are not affected by the actual state of the DataStore.
  • Dependency Injection can help you break down your code into smaller, more manageable modules. This makes...