Android Apprentice, 4th Edition: Beginning Android Development with Kotlin

Book Description

Learn Android programming with Kotlin!

Learning Android programming can be challenging. Sure, there is plenty of documentation, but the tools and libraries available today for Android are easily overwhelming for newcomers to Android and Kotlin.

Android Apprentice takes a different approach. From building a simple first app, all the way to a fully-featured podcast player app, this book walks you step-by-step, building on basic concepts to advanced techniques so you can build amazing apps worthy of the Google Play Store!

Who This Book Is For

This book is for anyone interested in writing mobile apps for Android. Though no previous mobile experience is necessary, this book is also a great resource for iPhone developers transitioning from iOS.

Topics Covered in Android Apprentice

• Getting Started: Learn how to set up Android Studio and the Android Emulator.
• Layouts: Create layouts that can be used for both Activities and Fragments
• Debugging: No one’s perfect! Learn how to dig down and troubleshoot bugs in your apps.
• Communication: Design separate Activites and communicate and send data between them using Intents.
• Scrolling Layouts: Learn how to use Recycler Views to make efficient, reusable views that scroll fluidly at a touch.
• Google Places: Integrate location APIs to bring the magic of maps into your Android apps.
• Networking: Learn how to access resouces on the internet and handle networked responses.
• Material Design: Make sure your apps conform to modern best practices by using Google’s standards of Material Design
• AndroidX: Learn how to use the AndroidX libraries to support older versions of Android.
• And much, much more!

One thing you can count on: after reading this book, you’ll be prepared to write feature-rich apps from scratch and go all the way to submiting them to the Google Play Store!

About the Tutorial Team

The Tutorial Team is a group of app developers and authors who write tutorials at the popular website raywenderlich.com. We take pride in making sure each tutorial we write holds to the highest standards of quality. We want our tutorials to be well written, easy to follow, and fun.

If you’ve enjoyed the tutorials we’ve written in the past, you’re in for a treat. The tutorials we’ve written for this book are some of our best yet – and this book contains detailed technical knowledge you simply won’t be able to find anywhere else.

中文：

书名：Android Apprentice, 4th Edition: Beginning Android Development with Kotlin

Learn Android programming with Kotlin!

学习Android编程可能是具有挑战性的。当然，有大量的文档，但对于Android和Kotlin的新手来说，目前适用于Android的工具和库很容易让人应接不暇。

Android Apprentice采取了一种不同的方法。从构建一个简单的第一个应用程序，一直到一个功能齐全的播客播放器应用程序，这本书带你一步一步地，建立在基本概念到先进的技术，这样你就可以建立令人惊叹的应用程序配得上Google Play商店！

Who This Book Is For

这本书适合任何对为Android编写移动应用程序感兴趣的人。虽然不需要之前的移动体验，但对于从iOS过渡的iPhone开发人员来说，这本书也是一个很好的资源。

Topics Covered in Android Apprentice

• Getting Started: Learn how to set up Android Studio and the Android Emulator.
• Layouts: Create layouts that can be used for both Activities and Fragments
• Debugging: No one’s perfect! Learn how to dig down and troubleshoot bugs in your apps.
• Communication: Design separate Activites and communicate and send data between them using Intents.
• Scrolling Layouts: Learn how to use Recycler Views to make efficient, reusable views that scroll fluidly at a touch.
• Google Places: Integrate location APIs to bring the magic of maps into your Android apps.
• Networking: Learn how to access resouces on the internet and handle networked responses.
• Material Design: Make sure your apps conform to modern best practices by using Google’s standards of Material Design
• AndroidX: Learn how to use the AndroidX libraries to support older versions of Android.
• And much, much more!

One thing you can count on: after reading this book, you’ll be prepared to write feature-rich apps from scratch and go all the way to submiting them to the Google Play Store!

About the Tutorial Team

教程团队是一群应用程序开发人员和作者，他们在广受欢迎的网站raywenderlich.com上编写教程。我们感到自豪的是，我们编写的每一篇教程都达到了最高的质量标准。我们希望我们的教程写得很好，容易理解，而且有趣。

如果你喜欢我们过去写的教程，那么你一定会受到款待。我们为这本书编写的教程是我们迄今最好的教程之一，这本书包含了你在其他地方找不到的详细技术知识。