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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)

Getting Started with WorkManager

In Android, WorkManager is an API introduced by Google as part of the Android Jetpack library. It is a powerful and flexible background task scheduling library that allows you to perform deferrable, asynchronous tasks even when your app is not running or the device is in a low-power state.

WorkManager provides a unified API to schedule tasks that need to be executed at a specific time or under certain conditions. It takes care of managing and running tasks efficiently, depending on factors such as device idle state, network connectivity, and battery level.

Furthermore, WorkManager allows observation of work status and chain creation. This chapter will look into how we can implement WorkManager using examples and learn how it works and its use cases.

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

  • Understanding the Jetpack WorkManager library
  • Understanding WorkManager state
  • Understanding threading in WorkManager...