How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin: A hands-on guide to developing, testing and publishing your first apps with Android

Book Description

Master the fundamentals of Android programming and apply your skills to create scalable and reliable apps using industry best practices

Key Features

• Build apps with Kotlin, Google’s preferred programming language for Android development
• Unlock solutions to development challenges with guidance from experienced Android professionals
• Improve your apps by adding valuable features that make use of advanced functionality

Book Description

Are you keen to get started building Android 11 apps, but don’t know where to start? How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin is a comprehensive guide that will help kick-start your Android development practice.

This book starts with the fundamentals of app development, enabling you to utilize Android Studio and Kotlin to get started building Android projects. You’ll learn how to create apps and run them on virtual devices through guided exercises. Progressing through the chapters, you’ll delve into Android’s RecyclerView to make the most of lists, images, and maps, and see how to fetch data from a web service.

Moving ahead, you’ll get to grips with testing, learn how to keep your architecture clean, understand how to persist data, and gain basic knowledge of the dependency injection pattern. Finally, you’ll see how to publish your apps on the Google Play store.

You’ll work on realistic projects that are split up into bitesize exercises and activities, allowing you to challenge yourself in an enjoyable and attainable way. You’ll build apps to create quizzes, read news articles, check weather reports, store recipes, retrieve movie information, and remind you where you parked your car.

By the end of this book, you’ll have the skills and confidence to build your own creative Android applications using Kotlin.

What you will learn

• Create maintainable and scalable apps using Kotlin
• Understand the Android development lifecycle
• Simplify app development with Google architecture components
• Use standard libraries for dependency injection and data parsing
• Apply the repository pattern to retrieve data from outside sources
• Publish your app on the Google Play store

Who This Book Is For

If you want to build your own Android applications using Kotlin but are unsure of how to begin, then this book is for you. To easily grasp the concepts in this book, it is recommended that you already have a basic understanding of Kotlin, or experience in a similar programming language and a willingness to brush up on Kotlin before you start.

中文：

书名：如何使用Kotlin构建Android应用程序：使用Android开发、测试和发布第一个应用程序的实践指南

掌握Android编程的基础知识，并运用您的技能使用行业最佳实践创建可扩展且可靠的应用程序

主要特点

• 使用谷歌首选的Android开发编程语言Kotlin构建应用程序
• 在经验丰富的Android专业人员的指导下解锁开发挑战的解决方案
• 通过添加利用高级功能的有价值功能来改进您的应用程序

图书描述

你是否热衷于开始开发Android 11应用程序，但不知道从哪里开始？How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin是一本全面的指南，将帮助您启动Android开发实践。

本书从应用程序开发的基础开始，使您能够利用Android Studio和Kotlin开始构建Android项目。你将通过有指导的练习学习如何创建应用程序并在虚拟设备上运行它们。随着章节的推进，你将深入研究Android的回收视图，以最大限度地利用列表、图像和地图，并了解如何从Web服务获取数据。

接下来，您将掌握测试，学习如何保持体系结构的整洁，了解如何持久化数据，并获得依赖项注入模式的基本知识。最后，您将了解如何在Google Play商店上发布您的应用程序。

你将致力于现实的项目，这些项目被分成小块的练习和活动，让你以一种愉快和可实现的方式挑战自己。你将开发应用程序来创建测验，阅读新闻文章，查看天气预报，存储食谱，检索电影信息，并提醒你把车停在哪里。

到本书结束时，您将拥有使用Kotlin构建自己的创造性Android应用程序的技能和信心。

你将学到什么

• 使用Kotline创建可维护和可扩展的应用程序
• 了解Android开发生命周期
• 使用Google架构组件简化应用程序开发
• 使用标准库进行依赖注入和数据解析
• 应用存储库模式从外部来源检索数据
• Publish your app on the Google Play store

这本书是为谁写的

如果您想使用Kotlin构建自己的Android应用程序，但不确定如何开始，那么这本书是为您准备的。为了轻松掌握本书中的概念，建议您在开始之前已经对Kotlin有基本的了解，或者具有类似编程语言的经验并愿意温习Kotlin。