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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)

Building for Large Screens

We can all agree now that we live in a world with foldable phones, a technology we never anticipated, due to their growing demand and popularity. Ten years ago, if you had told a developer we would have foldable phones, no one would have believed it due to the ambiguity of screen complexity and the transfer of information.

However, now the devices are here with us. And since some of these devices run on the Android operating system, it’s vital to know how we developers will build our applications to cater to foldability, along with the number of Android tablets we’re now seeing on the market. The support for large screens seems now mandatory, and in this chapter, we will look at supporting large screens in the new Modern Android Development.

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

  • Building adaptive layouts in Modern Android Development
  • Building adaptive layouts using ConstraintLayouts
  • Handling large...