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Mastering Kotlin for Android 14

By : Harun Wangereka
Book Image

Mastering Kotlin for Android 14

By: Harun Wangereka

Overview of this book

Written with the best practices, this book will help you master Kotlin and use its powerful language features, libraries, tools, and APIs to elevate your Android apps. As you progress, you'll use Jetpack Compose and Material Design 3 to build UIs for your app, explore how to architect and improve your app architecture, and use Jetpack Libraries like Room and DataStore to persist your data locally. Using a step-by-step approach, this book will teach you how to debug issues in your app, detect leaks, inspect network calls fired by your app, and inspect your Room database. You'll also add tests to your apps to detect and address code smells. Toward the end, you’ll learn how to publish apps to the Google Play Store and see how to automate the process of deploying consecutive releases using GitHub actions, as well as learn how to distribute test builds to Firebase App Distribution. Additionally, the book covers tips on how to increase user engagement. By the end of this Kotlin book, you’ll be able to develop market-ready apps, add tests to their codebase, address issues, and get them in front of the right audience.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: Building Your App
6
Part 2: Using Advanced Features
12
Part 3: Code Analysis and Tests
16
Part 4: Publishing Your App

Part 1: Building Your App

In this part, you will embark on a journey into Kotlin, exploring the features that make it an optimal choice for Android development. We will guide you through the process of migrating from Java, offering valuable insights for developers transitioning from a Java background. Step by step, you will delve into constructing your inaugural Android app, including the setting up of your development environment, and becoming acquainted with Android Studio. The focus extends to mastering Jetpack Compose, unraveling the art of crafting intuitive user interfaces. To finish, we will enlighten you on incorporating Material Design 3 into your applications, shedding light on the rich features and components it brings to the development landscape.

This section contains the following chapters: