Learning Kotlin by building Android Applications

Learn programming in Kotlin including data types, flow control, lambdas, object-oriented, and functional programming while building 3 Android Apps
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Learning Kotlin by building Android Applications

Eunice Adutwumwaa Obugyei, Natarajan Raman
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Learn programming in Kotlin including data types, flow control, lambdas, object-oriented, and functional programming while building 3 Android Apps
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Book Details

ISBN 139781788474641
Paperback316 pages

Book Description

Today Kotlin is an official programming language for Android development and is widely adopted. Kotlin is expressive, concise, and powerful. It also ensures seamless interoperability with existing Android languages like JAVA and C++, which means that it's even easier for developers to use.

This book adopts a project-style approach, where we focus on teaching Android development by building three different Android Application: a Tic-Tac-Toe application, a location- based alarm and a To-Do list application.

The book begins by giving you a strong grasp of the Kotlin language and its APIs as a preliminary to building stunning applications for Android. You'll learn to set up an environment and as you progress through the chapters and the building of the different applications, the difficulty level will steadily grow.

The book also introduces you to the Android Studio IDE, which plays an integral role in Android Development. It covers Kotlin's basic programming concepts such as functions, lambdas, properties, object-oriented code, safety aspects and type parameterization, testing, and concurrency, and helps you write Kotlin code to production.

Finally, you'll be taken through the process of releasing your app on the Google Play Store. You will also be introduced to other app distribution channels such as Amazon App Store.

As a bonus chapter, you will also learn how to use the Google Faces API to detect faces and add fun functionalities.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Setting Up for Android Development
Why develop Android with Kotlin?
Setting up your environment
Summary
Chapter 2: Configuring Your Environment for Kotlin
Installing the Kotlin plugin
Making our project Kotlin-ready
Summary
Chapter 3: Data Types, Variables, and Constants
The user interface
Basic types
Summary
Chapter 4: Classes and Objects
Structure of a class
Objects
Summary
Chapter 5: Type Checks and Null Safety
Null safety
Type checks
Summary
Chapter 6: Functions and Lambdas
Functions
Higher–order functions and lambdas
Implementing a game status check
Summary
Chapter 7: Developing Your Location-Based Alarm
Creating a project
Generation of a Google Maps API key
Understanding the code
Customizing the code
Developing a screen for user input
The AndroidManifest file
Summary
Chapter 8: Working with Google's Location Services
Integrating shared preferences
Adding permissions
Integration of the location API
The Google API client
Matching the location
Summary
Chapter 9: Connecting the Outside World – Networking
Network connectivity
Third-party libraries
Summary
Chapter 10: Developing a Simple To-Do List App
Creating the project
Building your UI
Adding functionality to the user interface 
Summary
Chapter 11: Persisting with Databases
Introduction to databases
Summary
Chapter 12: Setting Reminders for Tasks
AlarmManager
Firebase Cloud Messaging
Summary
Chapter 13: Testing and Continuous Integration
Testing
Stages of testing
Summary
Chapter 14: Making Your App Available to the World
Key store generation
Publishing the app in Google Play Store
Publishing the app in Amazon Appstore
Summary
Chapter 15: Building an App Using the Google Faces API
Introduction to Mobile Vision
Summary

What You Will Learn

  • Learn the basics of using the Android Studio IDE and a number of basic programming concepts in Kotlin
  • Discover Android development by building Android apps with Kotlin
  • Uncover some amazing features of Kotlin that give it the upper hand over Java
  • Learn about Kotlin interoperability with Java
  • Integrate Crashlytics for crash reporting and beta testing.
  • Use Google Location services and understand various APIs available for getting user location updates
  • Understand the principles of networking and communication.
  • Learn about the usage of third-party libraries for loading of data
  • Automate your build process with continuous integration tools

Authors

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Setting Up for Android Development
Why develop Android with Kotlin?
Setting up your environment
Summary
Chapter 2: Configuring Your Environment for Kotlin
Installing the Kotlin plugin
Making our project Kotlin-ready
Summary
Chapter 3: Data Types, Variables, and Constants
The user interface
Basic types
Summary
Chapter 4: Classes and Objects
Structure of a class
Objects
Summary
Chapter 5: Type Checks and Null Safety
Null safety
Type checks
Summary
Chapter 6: Functions and Lambdas
Functions
Higher–order functions and lambdas
Implementing a game status check
Summary
Chapter 7: Developing Your Location-Based Alarm
Creating a project
Generation of a Google Maps API key
Understanding the code
Customizing the code
Developing a screen for user input
The AndroidManifest file
Summary
Chapter 8: Working with Google's Location Services
Integrating shared preferences
Adding permissions
Integration of the location API
The Google API client
Matching the location
Summary
Chapter 9: Connecting the Outside World – Networking
Network connectivity
Third-party libraries
Summary
Chapter 10: Developing a Simple To-Do List App
Creating the project
Building your UI
Adding functionality to the user interface 
Summary
Chapter 11: Persisting with Databases
Introduction to databases
Summary
Chapter 12: Setting Reminders for Tasks
AlarmManager
Firebase Cloud Messaging
Summary
Chapter 13: Testing and Continuous Integration
Testing
Stages of testing
Summary
Chapter 14: Making Your App Available to the World
Key store generation
Publishing the app in Google Play Store
Publishing the app in Amazon Appstore
Summary
Chapter 15: Building an App Using the Google Faces API
Introduction to Mobile Vision
Summary

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Paperback316 pages
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