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

by Catalin Ghita

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781801818216
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	05/24/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	472
File size:	8 MB

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