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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

Dynamic Fragments

So far, you've only seen fragments added in XML at compile time. Although this can satisfy many use cases, you might want to add fragments dynamically at runtime to respond to the user's actions. This can be achieved by adding a ViewGroup as a container for fragments and then adding, replacing, and removing fragments from the ViewGroup. This technique is more flexible as the fragments can be active until they are no longer needed and then removed instead of always being inflated in XML layouts as you have seen with static fragments. If 3 or 4 more fragments are required to fulfill separate user journeys in one activity, then the preferred option is to react to the user's interaction in the UI by adding/replacing fragments dynamically. Using static fragments works better when the user's interaction with the UI is fixed at compile time and you know in advance how many fragments you need. For example, this would be the case for selecting items from...