How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin

<p><b>Unleash the power of Android programming to build scalable and reliable apps using industry best practices</b></p><p><b>Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook</b></p><h4>Key Features</h4><ul><li>Build apps with Kotlin Google’s preferred programming language for Android development</li><li>Unlock solutions to development challenges with guidance from experienced Android professionals</li><li>Improve your apps by adding valuable features that make use of advanced functionality</li></ul><h4>Book Description</h4><p>Looking to kick-start your app development journey with Android 13 but don’t know where to start? How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin is a comprehensive guide that will help jump-start your Android development practice.</p> <p>This book starts with the fundamentals of app development enabling you to utilize Android Studio and Kotlin to get started with building Android projects. Youll learn how to create apps and run them on virtual devices through guided exercises. Progressing through the chapters youll delve into Androids RecyclerView to make the most of lists images and maps and see how to fetch data from a web service.</p> <p>Youll also get to grips with testing learning how to keep your architecture clean understanding how to persist data and gaining basic knowledge of the dependency injection pattern. Finally youll see how to publish your apps on the Google Play store.</p> <p>Youll work on realistic projects that are split up into bitesize exercises and activities allowing you to challenge yourself in an enjoyable and attainable way. Youll build apps to create quizzes read news articles check weather reports store recipes retrieve movie information and remind you where you parked your car.</p> <p>By the end of this book youll have the skills and confidence to build your own creative Android applications using Kotlin.</p><h4>What you will learn</h4><ul><li>Create maintainable and scalable apps using Kotlin</li><li>Understand the Android app development lifecycle</li><li>Simplify app development with Google architecture components</li><li>Use standard libraries for dependency injection and data parsing</li><li>Apply the repository pattern to retrieve data from outside sources</li><li>Build user interfaces using Jetpack Compose</li><li>Explore Android asynchronous programming with Coroutines and the Flow API</li><li>Publish your app on the Google Play store</li></ul><h4>Who this book is for</h4><p>If you want to build Android applications using Kotlin but are unsure of how and where to begin then this book is for you. To easily grasp the concepts in this book a basic understanding of Kotlin or experience in a similar programming language is a must.</p>