Android Studio Arctic Fox Essentials – Kotlin Edition

Book Description

Fully updated for Android Studio Arctic Fox, the goal of this book is to teach the skills necessary to develop Android-based applications using the Kotlin programming language.

Beginning with the basics, this book provides an outline of the steps necessary to set up an Android development and testing environment followed by an introduction to programming in Kotlin including data types, flow control, functions, lambdas, and object-oriented programming.

An overview of Android Studio is included covering areas such as tool windows, the code editor, and the Layout Editor tool. An introduction to the architecture of Android is followed by an in-depth look at the design of Android applications and user interfaces using the Android Studio environment.

Chapters are also included covering the Android Architecture Components including view models, lifecycle management, Room database access, the Database Inspector, app navigation, live data, and data binding.

More advanced topics such as intents are also covered, as are touch screen handling, gesture recognition, and the recording and playback of audio. This edition of the book also covers printing, transitions, cloud-based file storage, and foldable device support.

The concepts of material design are also covered in detail, including the use of floating action buttons, Snackbars, tabbed interfaces, card views, navigation drawers, and collapsing toolbars.

Other key features of Android Studio Arctic Fox and Android are also covered in detail including the Layout Editor, the ConstraintLayout and ConstraintSet classes, MotionLayout Editor, view binding, constraint chains, barriers, and direct reply notifications.

Chapters also cover advanced features of Android Studio such as App Links, Dynamic Delivery, Gradle build configuration, and submitting apps to the Google Play Developer Console.

Assuming you already have some programming experience, are ready to download Android Studio and the Android SDK, have access to a Windows, Mac, or Linux system, and ideas for some apps to develop, you are ready to get started.

中文：

书名：安卓工作室北极狐狸精华&科特林版

这本书完全更新了Android Studio北极福克斯，目的是教授使用Kotlin编程语言开发基于Android的应用程序所需的技能。

从基础知识开始，本书概述了设置Android开发和测试环境所需的步骤，然后介绍了Kotlin编程，包括数据类型、流控制、函数、lambdas和面向对象编程。

其中包括Android Studio的概述，包括工具窗口、代码编辑器和布局编辑器工具等。在介绍Android的体系结构之后，我们将深入了解如何使用Android Studio环境设计Android应用程序和用户界面。

章节还涵盖了Android架构组件，包括视图模型、生命周期管理、Room数据库访问、数据库检查器、应用程序导航、实时数据和数据绑定。

此外，还介绍了更高级的主题，如意图、触摸屏处理、手势识别以及音频的录制和回放。这本书还涵盖了打印、过渡、基于云的文件存储和可折叠设备支持。

还详细介绍了材料设计的概念，包括浮动操作按钮、快捷栏、选项卡式界面、卡片视图、导航抽屉和折叠工具栏的使用。

还详细介绍了Android Studio北极狐和Android的其他关键功能，包括布局编辑器、ConstraintLayout和ConstraintSet类、MotionLayout编辑器、视图绑定、约束链、障碍和直接回复通知。

章节还涵盖了Android Studio的高级功能，如应用程序链接、动态交付、Gradle构建配置，以及将应用程序提交到Google Play开发人员控制台。

假设您已经有了一些编程经验，准备下载Android Studio和Android SDK，能够访问Windows、Mac或Linux系统，并且有一些要开发的应用程序的想法，那么您就可以开始了。