Kickstart Modern Android Development with Jetpack and Kotlin: Enhance your applications by integrating Jetpack and applying modern app architectural concepts

by Catalin Ghita

Overview

Explore modern Android development in Kotlin 1.6.10 with this condensed hands-on guide to building reliable apps using libraries such as Compose, ViewModel, Hilt, Retrofit, Flow, and more

Key Features

• Explore Jetpack libraries and other modern technologies for Android development
• Improve the architectural design of your Android apps
• Enhance the quality of your Android projects’ code bases and applications using the latest libraries

Book Description

With Jetpack libraries, you can build and design high-quality, robust Android apps that have an improved architecture and work consistently across different versions and devices. This book will help you understand how Jetpack allows developers to follow best practices and architectural patterns when building Android apps while also eliminating boilerplate code. Developers working with Android and Kotlin will be able to put their knowledge to work with this condensed practical guide to building apps with the most popular Jetpack libraries, including Jetpack Compose, ViewModel, Hilt, Room, Paging, Lifecycle, and Navigation. You'll get to grips with relevant libraries and architectural patterns, including popular libraries in the Android ecosystem such as Retrofit, Coroutines, and Flow while building modern applications with real-world data. By the end of this Android app development book, you'll have learned how to leverage Jetpack libraries and your knowledge of architectural concepts for building, designing, and testing robust Android applications for various use cases.

What you will learn

• Integrate popular Jetpack libraries such as Compose, ViewModel, Hilt, and Navigation into real Android apps with Kotlin
• Apply modern app architecture concepts such as MVVM, dependency injection, and clean architecture
• Explore Android libraries such as Retrofit, Coroutines, and Flow
• Integrate Compose with the rest of the Jetpack libraries or other popular Android libraries
• Work with other Jetpack libraries such as Paging and Room while integrating a real REST API that supports pagination
• Test Compose UI and the application logic through unit tests

Who this book is for

This book is for junior and intermediate-level Android developers looking to level up their Android development skills to develop high-quality apps using Jetpack libraries and other cutting-edge technologies. Beginners with knowledge of Android development fundamentals will also find this book useful. Familiarity with Kotlin is assumed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781801811071
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	05/20/2022
Pages:	472
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

Catalin Ghita is a Udemy Instructor and an Android Engineer proficient in Native Android Development, while also being active in Cross-platform development with React-Native and Flutter. He successfully built, deployed, and maintained huge scalable apps with millions of downloads and active users for industry giants like Burger King, Carrefour or Bankinter. He is designated to architect huge applications into scalable, maintainable and testable form and shapes. As the owner of the Coding Troops blog and Udemy instructor, he wrote articles and taught courses reaching tens of thousands of students, thereby exposing and clarifying concepts and subtleties on hot topics in Android.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Creating Modern UIs with Jetpack Compose
2. Handling UI state with Jetpack ViewModel
3. Displaying Real Data from a REST API with Retrofit
4. Handling Async Operations with Coroutines
5. Adding Navigation in Compose with Jetpack Navigation
6. Adding Offline Capabilities with Jetpack Room
7. Introducing Presentation Patterns in Android
8. Getting Started with Clean Architecture in Android
9. Implementing Dependency Injection with Jetpack Hilt
10. Test your app with UI and Unit tests
11. Creating Infinite Lists with Jetpack Paging and Kotlin Flow
12. Exploring the Jetpack Lifecycle Components