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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)

How to debug WorkManager

Any operation that requires working in the background and sometimes making network calls need proper exception handling. This is due to the fact that you do not want your users facing issues and a lack of exception handling coming back to haunt your team or you as a developer.

Hence, knowing how to debug WorkManager will come in handy, as this is one of those issues that might last for days if you have a bug. In this recipe, we will look at how to debug WorkManager.

Getting ready

To follow this recipe, you must have completed all previous recipes of this chapter.

How to do it…

You might encounter an issue where WorkManager no longer runs if it is out of sync. Follow this recipe to debug WorkManager:

  1. To be able to set up debugging, we will need to first create a custom initialization in our AndroidManifest.xml file, that is, by disabling the WorkManager initializer:
    <provider
        ...
        tools...