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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)

Migrating to Paging 3 and understanding the benefits

You might be using the old Paging version, in this case, Paging 2 or 1, and you might be required to migrate to utilize the benefits Paging 3 offers. Paging 3 offers enhanced functionality and ensures it addresses the most common challenges people experience using Paging 2.

In this recipe, we will look into how you can migrate to the latest recommended Paging library.

Getting ready

If your application is already using Paging 3, then you can skip this recipe; this step-by-step migration guide is intended for users currently using the older versions of the Paging library.

How to do it…

Migrating from old versions of the Paging library might seem complex due to the fact that each application is unique, and complexities might vary. In our example, however, we will touch on a low-level kind of migration since our example application does not need any migration.

To perform migration from old Paging libraries, follow...