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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)

Understanding chaining and canceling work requests

In Android development, ensuring you properly handle your application’s life cycle is crucial. Needless to say, this also applies to all background work, as a simple mistake can lead to your application draining the user’s battery, memory leaks, or even causing the application to crash or suffer from an application not responding (ANR) error. This could mean terrible reviews in the Play Store, which will later affect your business and causes stress for developers. How do you ensure this issue is handled well?

This can be done by ensuring all conflicts that arise while using WorkManager are appropriately handled or guaranteeing the policy we touched on in the previous recipe is well coded. In this recipe, we will look into chaining and canceling work requests and how to handle long-running work properly.

Say your project requires an order by which the operation should run; WorkManager gives you the ability to enqueue...