How to Build Android Applications with Kotlin

Utilize Android programming to build scalable and reliable apps using industry best practices with practical guidance from a team of Android experts with over 40 years of combined experience

Key Features

Build real-world Android apps with Kotlin and the Jetpack Compose UI framework
Leverage the latest libraries to accelerate your Android development
Overcome development challenges with tips and tricks from experienced Android professionals
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book DescriptionThis updated third edition will help you kick-start your Android development journey by showing you how to put the latest Kotlin libraries to use with continual focus on Jetpack Compose, Google’s powerful declarative UI framework.
You’ll learn the fundamentals of app development, which will enable you to use Android Studio. The chapters help you get to grips with Jetpack Compose to create your first screens, build apps to run them on virtual devices through guided exercises, and implement Jetpack Compose’s layout groups to make the most of lists, images, and maps. With Kotlin’s powerful networking and Coroutines libraries, you’ll fetch data in the background from a web service and manage displaying the data using Kotlin Flows. You’ll also familiarize yourself with testing, creating clean architecture, persisting data, and exploring the dependency injection pattern. The chapters show you how to publish your apps on the Google Play store. You'll work on realistic projects split up into bite-size exercises and activities, along with building apps to create quizzes, read news articles, check weather reports, store recipes, retrieve movie information as well as remind you where you parked your car.
By the end of this book, you'll have gained the skills and confidence to build your own creative Android apps using Kotlin.What you will learn

Create maintainable and scalable apps using Kotlin
Grasp Android asynchronous programming with Coroutines and the Flow Api
Simplify app development with Google architecture components
Apply the MVVM and Repository architecture patterns to standardize retrieving and displaying data from outside sources
Increase app stability and robustness with unit and integration tests
Use standard libraries for dependency injection, networking, data parsing, and persistence
Publish your app on the Google Play Store

Who this book is forThis book is for beginners as well as intermediate-level developers with no prior experience in Android app development. Basic knowledge of the Kotlin programming language or experience in a similar programming language, along with a willingness to brush up on Kotlin is required.