Android Studio Meerkat Essentials - Kotlin Edition

<p>This book fully updated for Android Studio Meerkat and the new UI teaches you how to develop Androidbased</p><p>applications using Kotlin.</p><p>Beginning with the basics the book outlines how to set up an Android development and testing environment</p><p>followed by an introduction to programming in Kotlin including data types control flow functions lambdas</p><p>and object-oriented programming. Asynchronous programming using Kotlin coroutines and flow is also</p><p>covered in detail.</p><p>Chapters also cover the Android Architecture Components including view models lifecycle management</p><p>Room database access content providers the Database Inspector app navigation live data and data binding.</p><p>More advanced topics such as intents are also covered such as touchscreen handling gesture recognition and</p><p>the recording and playback of audio. This book edition also covers printing transitions and foldable device</p><p>support.</p><p>The concepts of material design are also covered in detail including the use of floating action buttons Snackbars</p><p>tabbed interfaces card views navigation drawers and collapsing toolbars.</p><p>Other key features of Android Studio and Android are also covered in detail including the Layout Editor</p><p>the ConstraintLayout and ConstraintSet classes view binding constraint chains barriers and direct reply</p><p>notifications.</p><p>Chapters also cover advanced features of Android Studio such as Gradle build configuration in-app billing and</p><p>submitting apps to the Google Play Developer Console.</p><p>Assuming you already have some programming experience are ready to download Android Studio and the</p><p>Android SDK have access to a Windows Mac or Linux system and have ideas for some apps to develop you</p><p>are ready to get started.</p>