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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

Building App Navigation

In this chapter, you will build user-friendly app navigation through three primary patterns: bottom navigation, the navigation drawer, and tabbed navigation. Through guided theory and practice, you will learn how each of these patterns works so that users can easily access your app’s content. This chapter will also focus on making the user aware of where they are in the app and which level of your app’s hierarchy they can navigate to.

By the end of this chapter, you will know how to use these three primary navigation patterns and understand how they work with the app bar to support navigation.

In the previous chapter, you explored fragments and the fragment lifecycle and employed Jetpack navigation to simplify their use in your apps. In this chapter, you will learn how to add different types of navigation to your app while continuing to use Jetpack navigation.

You will start off by learning about the navigation drawer, the earliest widely...