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Mastering Kotlin for Android 14

You're reading from   Mastering Kotlin for Android 14 Build powerful Android apps from scratch using Jetpack libraries and Jetpack Compose

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837631711
Length 370 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Building Your App
2. Chapter 1: Get Started with Kotlin Android Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Creating Your First Android App 4. Chapter 3: Jetpack Compose Layout Basics 5. Chapter 4: Design with Material Design 3 6. Part 2: Using Advanced Features
7. Chapter 5: Architect Your App 8. Chapter 6: Network Calls with Kotlin Coroutines 9. Chapter 7: Navigating within Your App 10. Chapter 8: Persisting Data Locally and Doing Background Work 11. Chapter 9: Runtime Permissions 12. Part 3: Code Analysis and Tests
13. Chapter 10: Debugging Your App 14. Chapter 11: Enhancing Code Quality 15. Chapter 12: Testing Your App 16. Part 4: Publishing Your App
17. Chapter 13: Publishing Your App 18. Chapter 14: Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment 19. Chapter 15: Improving Your App 20. Index 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Architect Your App

The process of developing apps needs to be scalable in such a way that you can maintain the app over a long time and easily hand over the development of it to other developers or teams. To be able to do this, we need to properly think about the architecture of our apps. We will be looking at how to build our apps in this chapter.

In this chapter, we will build on what we’ve learned from the previous chapters. We are going to look at the different architectures available for Android projects. We’ll dive deep into MVVM architecture and its different layers and how to use some of the Jetpack libraries within their architecture. Additionally, we’ll learn how to use advanced architecture features, such as dependency injection and Kotlin Gradle DSL, as well as version catalogs to define dependencies.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Introduction to app architecture
  • MVVM deep dive
  • Jetpack...
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