Aanand Shekhar Roy is a freelance Android developer. His mobile engineering career includes working for various startups and companies, such as Netherlands-based ConceptOffice and U.S.-based startups Consciously.Life and NextFan-FantasyIndyCar. He is also a mentor for the Associate Android Developer Fast Track program by Google on Udacity and mentors a team of 20 software developers. He is also a writer at AndroidPub.
Acknowledgement is probably that part of the book you least have interest in. Simply because every time you open it, it's either thanking someone else who you don't know. Not this time, this book is dedicated to only learners like you, simply because it wouldn't have come to life without you wanting to read it.
Rashi Karanpuria is a professional Android developer. She started her career by working on a wallet app for a New Zealand based Fintech startup. She has developed projects in various domains such as IOT, AdTech, Business, Social, and live streaming apps. Over the years, she has acquired a deep understanding of the user experience needed to develop a successful mobile application. She combines her design skills with scalable and maintainable code using best practices to create quality products.
I would like to thank each & every member of the developer community all across the world. This is the only community that I know of to give ideas and resources so freely without expecting anything in return. Did you know Kotlin is open source? This giving nature of our developer community is why I am who I am today. Thanks.
Mitchell Wong Ho was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he completed his national diploma in electrical engineering. Mitchell's software development career started on embedded systems and then moved to Microsoft desktop/server applications. Mitchell has been programming in Java since 2000 on J2ME, JEE, desktop, and Android applications, and has more recently been advocating Kotlin for Android.
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