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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

Mockito

In the preceding examples, we looked at how to set up a unit test and how to use assertions to verify the result of an operation. What if we want to verify whether a certain method was called? Or what if we want to manipulate the test input in order to test a specific scenario? In these types of situations, we can use Mockito. This is a library that helps developers set up dummy objects that can be injected into the objects under test and allows them to verify method calls, set up inputs, and even monitor the test objects themselves.

The library should be added to your test Gradle setup, as follows:

testImplementation 'org.mockito:mockito-core:3.6.0'

Now, let's look at the following code example (please note that, for brevity, import statements have been removed from the following code snippets):

class StringConcatenator(private val context: Context) {
    fun concatenate(@StringRes stringRes1: Int, 
     ...