eBook - ePub

Mastering Kotlin for Android 14

Name: Mastering Kotlin for Android 14
Author: Harun Wangereka

Build powerful Android apps from scratch using Jetpack libraries and Jetpack Compose

Harun Wangereka,

370 pages
English
ePUB (mobile friendly)
Available on iOS & Android

eBook - ePub

Mastering Kotlin for Android 14

Build powerful Android apps from scratch using Jetpack libraries and Jetpack Compose

Harun Wangereka,

About this book

Accelerate your Android development journey by mastering the latest Kotlin techniques and libraries to build robust apps with the help of this part-color guide

Key Features

Apply best practices and industry-essential skills used by Google Developer Experts
Find out how to publish, monitor, and improve your app metrics on the Google Play Store
Learn how to debug issues, detect leaks, inspect network calls, and inspect your app's local database
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

Written with the best practices, this book will help you master Kotlin and use its powerful language features, libraries, tools, and APIs to elevate your Android apps.As you progress, you'll use Jetpack Compose and Material Design 3 to build UIs for your app, explore how to architect and improve your app architecture, and use Jetpack Libraries like Room and DataStore to persist your data locally. Using a step-by-step approach, this book will teach you how to debug issues in your app, detect leaks, inspect network calls fired by your app, and inspect your Room database. You'll also add tests to your apps to detect and address code smells.Toward the end, you'll learn how to publish apps to the Google Play Store and see how to automate the process of deploying consecutive releases using GitHub actions, as well as learn how to distribute test builds to Firebase App Distribution. Additionally, the book covers tips on how to increase user engagement.By the end of this Kotlin book, you'll be able to develop market-ready apps, add tests to their codebase, address issues, and get them in front of the right audience.

What you will learn

Build beautiful, responsive, and accessible UIs with Jetpack Compose
Explore various app architectures and find out how you can improve them
Perform code analysis and add unit and instrumentation tests to your apps
Publish, monitor, and improve your apps in the Google Play Store
Perform long-running operations with WorkManager and persist data in your app
Use CI/CD with GitHub Actions and distribute test builds with Firebase App Distribution
Find out how to add linting and static checks on CI/CD pipelines

Who this book is for

If you're an aspiring Android developer or an Android developer working with Java, then this book is for you. Basic Java programming skills are a must if you want to fully utilize the techniques and best practices showcased in this book.

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