How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin : A Practical Guide to Developing, Testing, and Publishing Your First Android Apps

How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin A Practical Guide to Developing, Testing, and Publishing Your First Android Apps

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. This book starts with the fundamentals of app development, enabling you...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Forrester, Alex, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing Ltd [2023]
Edición:Second edition
Materias:
Application software > Development.
Kotlin (Computer program language)
Android (Electronic resource)
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009742721306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contributors
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Part 1: Android Foundation
  • Chapter 1: Creating Your First App
  • Technical requirements
  • Creating an Android project with Android Studio
  • Exercise 1.01 - creating an Android Studio project for your app
  • Setting up a virtual device and running your app
  • Exercise 1.02 - setting up a virtual device and running your app on it
  • The Android manifest
  • Exercise 1.03 - configuring the Android manifest internet permission
  • Using Gradle to build, configure, and manage app dependencies
  • The project-level build.gradle file
  • The app-level build.gradle file
  • Exercise 1.04 - exploring how Material Design is used to theme an app
  • Android application structure
  • Exercise 1.05 - adding interactive UI elements to display a bespoke greeting to the user
  • Accessing Views in layout files
  • Further input validation
  • Activity 1.01 - producing an app to create RGB colors
  • Summary
  • Chapter 2: Building User Screen Flows
  • Technical requirements
  • The Activity lifecycle
  • Exercise 2.01 - logging the Activity Callbacks
  • Saving and restoring the Activity state
  • Exercise 2.02 - saving and restoring the state in layouts
  • Exercise 2.03 - saving and restoring the state with Callbacks
  • Activity interaction with Intents
  • Exercise 2.04 - an introduction to Intents
  • Exercise 2.05 - retrieving a result from an Activity
  • Intents, Tasks, and Launch Modes
  • Exercise 2.06 - setting the Launch Mode of an Activity
  • Activity 2.01 - creating a login form
  • Summary
  • Chapter 3: Developing the UI with Fragments
  • Technical requirements
  • The fragment lifecycle
  • onAttach
  • onCreate
  • onCreateView
  • onViewCreated
  • onActivityCreated
  • onStart
  • onResume
  • onPause
  • onStop
  • onDestroyView
  • onDestroy
  • onDetach.
  • Exercise 3.01 - adding a basic fragment and the fragment lifecycle
  • Exercise 3.02 - adding fragments statically to an activity
  • Static fragments and dual-pane layouts
  • Exercise 3.03 - dual-pane layouts with static fragments
  • Dynamic fragments
  • Exercise 3.04 - adding fragments dynamically to an activity
  • Jetpack Navigation
  • Exercise 3.05 - adding a Jetpack navigation graph
  • Activity 3.01 - creating a quiz on the planets
  • Summary
  • Chapter 4: Building App Navigation
  • Technical requirements
  • Navigation overview
  • Navigation drawer
  • Exercise 4.01 - creating an App with a navigation drawer
  • Bottom navigation
  • Exercise 4.02 - adding bottom navigation to your app
  • Tabbed navigation
  • Exercise 4.03 - using tabs for app navigation
  • Activity 4.01 - building primary and secondary app navigation
  • Summary
  • Part 2: Displaying Network Calls
  • Chapter 5: Essential Libraries: Retrofit, Moshi, and Glide
  • Technical requirements
  • Introducing REST, API, JSON, and XML
  • Fetching data from a network endpoint
  • Exercise 5.01 - reading data from an API
  • Parsing a JSON response
  • Exercise 5.02 - extracting the image URL from the API response
  • Loading images from a remote URL
  • Exercise 5.03 - loading the image from the obtained URL
  • Activity 5.01 - displaying the current weather
  • Summary
  • Chapter 6: Adding and Interacting with RecyclerView
  • Technical requirements
  • Adding RecyclerView to our layout
  • Exercise 6.01 - adding an empty RecyclerView to your main activity
  • Populating RecyclerView
  • Exercise 6.02 - populating your RecyclerView
  • Responding to clicks in RecyclerView
  • Exercise 6.03 - responding to clicks
  • Supporting different Item types
  • Exercise 6.04 - adding titles to RecyclerView
  • Swiping to remove Items
  • Exercise 6.05 - adding swipe to delete functionality
  • Adding items interactively.
  • Exercise 6.06 - implementing an Add A Cat button
  • Activity 6.01 - managing a list of Items
  • Summary
  • Chapter 7: Android Permissions and Google Maps
  • Technical requirements
  • Requesting permission from the user
  • Exercise 7.01 - requesting the location permission
  • Showing a map of the user's location
  • Exercise 7.02 - obtaining the user's current location
  • Map clicks and custom markers
  • Exercise 7.03 - adding a custom marker where the map was clicked
  • Activity 7.01 - creating an app to find the location of a parked car
  • Summary
  • Chapter 8: Services, WorkManager, and Notifications
  • Technical requirements
  • Starting a background task using WorkManager
  • Exercise 8.01 - executing background work with the WorkManager class
  • Background operations noticeable to the user - using a Foreground Service
  • Exercise 8.02 - tracking your SCA's work with a Foreground Service
  • Activity 8.01 - reminder to drink water
  • Summary
  • Chapter 9: Building User Interfaces Using Jetpack Compose
  • Technical requirements
  • What is Jetpack Compose?
  • Exercise 9.01 - first Compose screen
  • Handling user actions
  • Exercise 9.02 - handling user inputs
  • Theming in Compose
  • Exercise 9.03 - applying themes
  • Adding Compose to existing projects
  • Activity 9.01 - first Compose app
  • Summary
  • Part 3: Testing and Code Structure
  • Chapter 10: Unit Tests and Integration Tests with JUnit, Mockito, and Espresso
  • Technical requirements
  • Types of testing
  • JUnit
  • Android Studio testing tips
  • Mockito
  • Exercise 10.01 - testing the sum of numbers
  • Integration tests
  • Robolectric
  • Espresso
  • Exercise 10.02 - double integration
  • UI tests
  • Testing in Jetpack Compose
  • Exercise 10.03 - random waiting times
  • TDD
  • Exercise 10.04 - using TDD to calculate the sum of numbers
  • Activity 10.01 - developing with TDD
  • Summary.
  • Chapter 11: Android Architecture Components
  • Technical requirements
  • Android components background
  • ViewModel
  • Exercise 11.01 - shared ViewModel
  • Data streams
  • LiveData
  • Additional data streams
  • Room
  • Entities
  • DAO
  • Setting up the database
  • Third-party frameworks
  • Exercise 11.03 - making a little room
  • Activity 11.01 - a shopping notes app
  • Summary
  • Chapter 12: Persisting Data
  • Technical requirements
  • Preferences and DataStore
  • SharedPreferences
  • Exercise 12.01 - wrapping SharedPreferences
  • DataStore
  • Exercise 12.02 - Preference DataStore
  • Files
  • Internal storage
  • External storage
  • FileProvider
  • The Storage Access Framework (SAF)
  • Asset files
  • Exercise 12.03 - copying files
  • Scoped storage
  • Camera and media storage
  • Exercise 12.04 - taking photos
  • Activity 12.01 - dog downloader
  • Summary
  • Chapter 13: Dependency Injection with Dagger, Hilt, and Koin
  • Technical requirements
  • The necessity of dependency injection
  • Manual DI
  • Exercise 13.01 - manual injection
  • Dagger 2
  • Consumers
  • Providers
  • Connectors
  • Qualifiers
  • Scopes
  • Subcomponents
  • Exercise 13.02 - Dagger injection
  • Hilt
  • Exercise 13.03 - Hilt injection
  • Koin
  • Exercise 13.04 - Koin injection
  • Activity 13.01 - injected repositories
  • Summary
  • Part 4: Polishing and Publishing an App
  • Chapter 14: Coroutines and Flow
  • Technical requirements
  • Using Coroutines on Android
  • Creating coroutines
  • Adding coroutines to your project
  • Exercise 14.01 - using coroutines in an Android app
  • Transforming LiveData
  • Exercise 14.02 - LiveData transformations
  • Using Flow on Android
  • Collecting Flows on Android
  • Creating Flows with Flow Builders
  • Using operators with Flows
  • Exercise 14.03 - using Flow in an Android application
  • Activity 14.01 - creating a TV Guide app
  • Summary.
  • Chapter 15: Architecture Patterns
  • Technical requirements
  • Getting started with MVVM
  • Binding data on Android with data binding
  • Exercise 15.01- using data binding in an Android project
  • Using Retrofit and Moshi
  • Implementing the Repository pattern
  • Exercise 15.02 - using Repository with Room in an Android project
  • Using WorkManager
  • Exercise 15.03 - adding WorkManager to an Android Project
  • Activity 15.01 - revisiting the TV Guide app
  • Summary
  • Chapter 16: Animations and Transitions with CoordinatorLayout and MotionLayout
  • Technical requirements
  • Activity transitions
  • Adding activity transitions through XML
  • Adding activity transitions through code
  • Starting an activity with an activity transition
  • Exercise 16.01 - creating activity transitions in an app
  • Adding a shared element transition
  • Starting an activity with the shared element transition
  • Exercise 16.02 - creating the shared element transition
  • Animations with CoordinatorLayout
  • Animations with MotionLayout
  • Adding MotionLayout
  • Creating animations with MotionLayout
  • Exercise 16.03 - adding animations with MotionLayout
  • The Motion Editor
  • Debugging MotionLayout
  • Modifying the MotionLayout path
  • Exercise 16.04 - modifying the animation path with keyframes
  • Activity 16.01 - Password Generator
  • Summary
  • Chapter 17: Launching Your App on Google Play
  • Preparing your apps for release
  • Versioning apps
  • Creating a keystore
  • Exercise 17.01 - creating a keystore in Android Studio
  • Storing the keystore and passwords
  • Signing your apps for release
  • Exercise 17.02 - creating a signed APK
  • Android app bundle
  • Exercise 17.03 - creating a signed app bundle
  • App signing by Google Play
  • Creating a developer account
  • Uploading an app to Google Play
  • Creating a store listing
  • Preparing the release.
  • Rolling out a release.

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