Mastering android development with Kotlin : deep dive into the world of Android to create robust applications with Kotlin / Milos Vasic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vasić, Miloš, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mobile computing.

Mobile apps--Programming.

Mobile apps.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt Publishing, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Vasic Milos: Milo Vasi is a software engineer, author and open source enthusiasts. Milo holds a Bachelor degree in Programming of computer graphics and Master degree in the field of Android programming, both degrees he obtained at the Singidunum University. He published his first book Fundamental Kotlin in October 2016 and thus achieved his dream of becoming an author.

Summary:

Master Android development using a variety of Kotlin features About This Book Leverage specific features of Kotlin to ease Android application development An illustrative guide that will help you write code based Kotlin language to build robust Android applications Filled with various practical examples build amazing Android project using Kotlin so you can easily apply your knowledge to real world scenarios Who This Book Is For The book is for developers who want to build amazing Android applications in an easy and effective way. Basic knowledge of Kotlin is assumed, but you do not need any familiarity with Android development. What You Will Learn Understand the basics of Android development with Kotlin Get to know the key concepts in Android development See how to create modern mobile applications for the Android platform Adjust your application's look and feel Know how to persist and share application database Work with Services and other concurrency mechanisms Write effective tests Migrate an existing Java-based project to Kotlin In Detail Kotlin is a programming language intended to be a better Java, and it's designed to be usable and readable across large teams with different levels of knowledge. As a language, it helps developers build amazing Android applications in an easy and effective way. This book begins by giving you a strong grasp of Kotlin's features in the context of Android development and its APIs. Moving on, you'll take steps toward building stunning applications for Android. The book will show you how to set up the environment, and the difficulty level will grow steadily with the applications covered in the upcoming chapters. Later on, the book will introduce you to the Android Studio IDE, which plays an integral role in Android development. We'll use Kotlin's basic programming concepts such as functions, lambdas, properties, object-oriented code, safety aspects, type parameterization, testing, and concurrency, which will guide you through writing Kotlin code into production. We'll also show you how to integrate Kotlin into any existing Android project. Style and approach In this book, you'll master Android development using Kotlin through real application examples. We'll introduce you to basic Android concepts and offer guidance from the first steps to the final project. In each chapter, we'll develop one important application functionality as a development milestone. As we progress, you'll become more experienced in Andro...

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Starting with Android

Why Kotlin?

Kotlin for Android - it's official

Downloading and configuring Android Studio

Setting up Android emulators

Creating a new AVD instance

Duplicating an existing AVD and modifying it by need

Android Debug Bridge

Other important tools

Initializing a Git repository

Creating an Android project

Setting up Gradle

Explaining directory structure

Defining build types and flavors

Additional libraries

Getting familiar with Android Manifest

Main Application class

Your first screen

Summary

Chapter 2: Building and Running

Running your first Android application

Meet the Logcat

First case

Using the Gradle build tool

Debug your application

Chapter 3: Screens

Analyzing the mockup plan

Defining application activities

Android layouts

Using EditText views

The margins attribute

The padding attribute

Checking out the gravity attribute

Looking at other attributes

Understanding Android Context

Understanding fragments

Fragment manager

Fragments stack

Creating View Pager

Making animations with transitions

Dialog fragments

Notifications

Other important UI components

Chapter 4: Connecting Screen Flow

Creating an application bar

Using the navigation drawer

Connecting activities

Looking deeper into Android Intents

Passing information between activities and fragments

Chapter 5: Look and Feel

Themes in the Android Framework

Styles in Android

Working with assets

Using custom fonts

Applying coloring

Make your buttons look pretty

Setting animations.

Animation sets in Android

Chapter 6: Permissions

Permissions from Android Manifest

Requesting permissions

Doing it the Kotlin way

Chapter 7: Working with Databases

Introduction to SQLite

Benefits

Describing our database

CRUD operations

Insert CRUD operation

Update CRUD operation

Delete CRUD operation

Select CRUD operation

Tying things together

Chapter 8: Android Preferences

What are Android preferences?

How can you use them?

Editing (storing) preferences

Removing preferences

Defining your own preferences manager

Chapter 9: Concurrency in Android

Introduction to Android concurrency

Main thread

Handlers and threads

AsyncTask

Understanding Android Looper

Preparing the Looper

Delayed execution

Chapter 10: Android Services

Service categorization

Foreground Android services

Background Android services

Bound Android services

Android service basics

Declaring your service

Starting the service

Stopping the service

Binding to Android service

Service lifecycle

Defining the main application service

Defining the intent service

Chapter 11: Messaging

Understanding Android broadcasts

System broadcasts

Listening for broadcasts

Registering from the context

Receivers execution

Sending broadcasts

Creating your own broadcast messages

Using on boot and on shutdown broadcasts

Listening for network events

Chapter 12: Backend and API

Identifying entities used

Working with data classes

Connect data models to a database

Introduction to Retrofit

Defining Retrofit service

Building a Retrofit service instance

Introduction to Gson with Kotson library

What else is available?

Retrofit alternative.

Gson alternative

Executing our first API call

Content providers

Android adapters

Content loaders

Data binding

Using lists

Using grids

Implementing drag and drop

Chapter 13: Tuning Up for High Performance

Optimizing layouts

Optimizing battery life

Keeping your application responsive

Chapter 14: Testing

Adding dependencies

Updating folder structure

Writing your first test

Using test suites

How to test UI

Running tests

Running unit tests

Running instrumentation tests

Chapter 15: Migration to Kotlin

Preparing the migration

Danger signs

Updating dependencies

Converting classes

Refactoring and cleanup

Chapter 16: Deploying Your Application

Preparing for deployment

Code obfuscation

Signing your application

Publishing to Google Play

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed December 7, 2017).

ISBN:

9781788474665

178847466X

OCLC:

1014123548