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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
12
12. Dependency Injection with Dagger and Koin

Introduction

In the previous chapter, you learned about using RxJava and coroutines for doing background operations and data manipulation. Now, you will learn about architectural patterns so you can improve your application.

When developing an Android application, you might tend to write most of the code (including business logic) in activities or fragments. This would make your project hard to test and maintain later. As your project grows and becomes more complex, the difficulty will increase too. You can improve your projects with architectural patterns.

Architectural patterns are general solutions for designing and developing parts of applications, especially for large apps. There are architectural patterns you can use to structure your project into different layers (the presentation layer, the user interface (UI) layer, and the data layer) or functions (observer/observable). With architectural patterns, you can organize your code in a way that makes it easier for you...