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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 adaptive layouts using ConstraintLayouts

Jetpack Compose, a declarative UI toolkit to build great UIs, is ideal to implement and design screen layouts that adjust automatically by themselves and render content well across different screen sizes.

This can be useful to consider when building your application, since the chance of it being installed in a foldable device is high. Furthermore, this can range from simple layout adjustments to filling up a foldable space that looks like a tablet.

Getting ready

You need to have read the previous chapters to follow along with this recipe.

How to do it…

For this recipe, we will build a separate composable function to show you how to use ConstraintLayout in the same project instead of creating a new one:

  1. Let’s go ahead and open Traveller. Add a new package and call it constraintllayoutexample. Inside the package, create a Kotlin file, called ConstraintLayoutExample, and then add the following dependency...