How to Build Android Applications with Kotlin: A hands-on guide to developing, testing, and publishing production-grade Android 16 apps

Utilize Android programming to build scalable and reliable apps using industry best practices with practical guidance from a team of Android experts with over 60 years of combined experience

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Key FeaturesBuild real-world Android apps with Kotlin and the Jetpack Compose UI frameworkLeverage the latest libraries to accelerate your Android developmentOvercome development challenges with tips and tricks from experienced Android professionalsGet With Your Book: PDF Copy, AI Assistant, and Next-Gen Reader FreeBook Description

Written by four veteran developers with 60+ years of collective experience, this updated third edition will jumpstart your Android development journey, focusing on Kotlin libraries and Jetpack Compose, Google’s powerful declarative UI framework.

You’ll learn the fundamentals of app development, enabling you to use Android Studio, as well as get to grips with Jetpack Compose to create your first screens, build apps to run them on virtual devices through guided exercises, and implement Jetpack Compose’s layout groups to make the most of lists, images, and maps. The book has been updated with Kotlin’s powerful networking and coroutines libraries to help you fetch data in the background from a web service and manage displaying the data using Kotlin flows. You’ll learn about testing, creating clean architecture, and persisting data, as well as exploring the dependency injection pattern and learning how to publish your apps on the Google Play Store. You’ll also work on realistic projects split up into bite-size exercises and activities, along with building 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 gained the skills and confidence to build your own creative Android apps using Kotlin.

What you will learnCreate maintainable and scalable apps using KotlinGrasp Android asynchronous programming with coroutines and the Flow APISimplify app development with Google architecture componentsApply MVVM and Repository architecture patterns to standardize retrieving and displaying data from outside sourcesIncrease app stability and robustness with unit and integration testsUse standard libraries for dependency injection, networking, data parsing, and persistencePublish your app on the Google Play StoreWho this book is for

This book is for beginners as well as intermediate-level developers with no prior experience in Android app development. Basic knowledge of the Kotlin programming language or experience in a similar programming language, along with a willingness to brush up on Kotlin is required.

Table of ContentsCreating Your First AppBuilding User Screen FlowsDeveloping the UI with Jetpack ComposeBuilding App NavigationEssential Libraries – Ktor, Kotlin Serialization, and CoilBuilding Lists with Jetpack ComposeAndroid Permissions and Google MapsServices, WorkManager, and NotificationsTesting with JUnit, Mockito, MockK, and ComposeCoroutines and FlowAndroid Architecture ComponentsPersisting DataDependency Injection with Dagger, Hilt, and KoinArchitecture PatternsAdvanced Jetpack ComposeLaunching Your App on Google Play

From the Publisher

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DGL2ZN4R
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Packt Publishing
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 5, 2025
Edition ‏ : ‎ 3rd ed.
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 654 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1835882765
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1835882764
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.44 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 1.48 x 9.25 inches
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