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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

Android Application Structure

Now that we have covered how the Gradle build tool works, we'll explore the rest of the project. The simplest way to do this is to examine the folder structure of the app. There is a tool window at the top left of Android Studio called Project, which allows you to browse the contents of your app. By default, it is open/selected when your Android project is first created. When you select it, you will see a view similar to the screenshot in Figure 1.19. (If you can't see any window bars on the left-hand side of the screen, then go to the top toolbar and select View | Appearance | Tool Window Bars and make sure it is ticked). There are many different options for how to browse your project, but Android will be pre-selected. This view neatly groups the app folder structure together, so let's take a look at it.

Here is an overview of these files with more detail about the most important ones. On opening it, you will see that it consists of...