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How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin

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

How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin

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

Overview of this book

Are you keen to get started building Android 11 apps, but don’t know where to start? How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin is a comprehensive guide that will help kick-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 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. Moving ahead, you'll get to grips with testing, learn how to keep your architecture clean, understand how to persist data, and gain 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 (17 chapters)
Preface
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12. Dependency Injection with Dagger and Koin

Creating an Android Project with Android Studio

In order to be productive in terms of building Android apps, it is essential to become confident with how to use Android Studio. This is the official Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Android development, built on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA IDE and developed by the Android Studio team at Google. You will be using it throughout this course to create apps and progressively add more advanced features.

The development of Android Studio has followed the development of the IntelliJ IDEA IDE. The fundamental features of an IDE are of course present, enabling you to optimize your code with suggestions, shortcuts, and standard refactoring. The programming language you will be using throughout this course to create Android apps is Kotlin. Since Google I/O 2017 (the annual Google developer conference), this has been Google's preferred language for Android app development. What really sets Android Studio apart from other...