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How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin - Second Edition

By : Alex Forrester, Eran Boudjnah, Alexandru Dumbravan, Jomar Tigcal
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Book Image

How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Alex Forrester, Eran Boudjnah, Alexandru Dumbravan, Jomar Tigcal

Overview of this book

Looking to kick-start your app development journey with Android 13, but don’t know where to start? How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin is a comprehensive guide that will help jump-start your Android development practice. This book starts with the fundamentals of app development, enabling you to utilize Android Studio and Kotlin to get started with building Android projects. You'll learn how to create apps and run them on virtual devices through guided exercises. Progressing through the chapters, you'll delve into Android's RecyclerView to make the most of lists, images, and maps, and see how to fetch data from a web service. You'll also get to grips with testing, learning how to keep your architecture clean, understanding how to persist data, and gaining basic knowledge of the dependency injection pattern. Finally, you'll see how to publish your apps on the Google Play store. You'll work on realistic projects that are split up into bitesize exercises and activities, allowing you to challenge yourself in an enjoyable and attainable way. You'll build apps to create quizzes, read news articles, check weather reports, store recipes, retrieve movie information, and remind you where you parked your car. By the end of this book, you'll have the skills and confidence to build your own creative Android applications using Kotlin.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1: Android Foundation
6
Part 2: Displaying Network Calls
12
Part 3: Testing and Code Structure
17
Part 4: Polishing and Publishing an App

Creating a developer account

To publish applications on Google Play, the first step that you need to take is to create a Google Play developer account. Head over to https://play.google.com/console/signup and log in with your Google account. If you don’t have one, you should create one first.

We recommend using a Google account that you plan to use in the long term instead of a throwaway one. Read the developer distribution agreement and agree to the terms of service.

Note

If your goal is to sell paid apps or add in-app products to your apps/games, you must also create a merchant account. This is not available in all countries, unfortunately. We won’t cover this here, but you can read more about it on the registration page or at https://packt.link/LDncA.

You must pay a $25 registration fee to create your Google Play Developer account. (This is a one-time payment). The fee must be paid using a valid debit/credit card, but some prepaid/virtual credit cards also...