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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

Introduction to app architecture

So far, we have learned how to create apps and designed beautiful UIs with Material 3 and Jetpack Compose. We haven’t yet started adopting any architecture for our apps. In this section, we will look at some of the app architectures that we can use to build our apps. We will also look at some of the best practices that we can follow when building our apps. First, let’s see some of the benefits of using an app architecture:

  • Separation of concerns: Using an architecture allows us to separate our code into different layers. Each layer only does one thing. This makes it easy to separate and group our code into different layers. Each layer has its responsibility. This prevents things from being mixed up and makes it easier to maintain our code.
  • Easy testing: Using an architecture makes it easy to test our code. We can easily test each layer of our code in isolation since things are not tightly coupled.
  • Easy to maintain: Using...
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