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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

Summary

This chapter covered the most important navigation techniques you need to know about in order to create clear and consistent navigation in your apps. You started off by learning how to create an Android Studio project with a navigation drawer to connect navigation menu items to individual fragments using Jetpack navigation. You then progressed to actions within Jetpack navigation to navigate to other secondary destinations in your app within the navigation graph.

The next exercise then used bottom navigation to display primary navigation destinations that are always visible on the screen. We followed this by looking at tabbed navigation, where you learned how to display both fixed and scrollable tabs. For each navigational pattern, you were shown when it might be more suitable, depending on the type of app you were building. We finished this chapter by building our own app using one or more of these navigational patterns and adding both primary and secondary destinations...