You're reading from How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin A practical guide to developing, testing, and publishing your first Android apps

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837634934

Length 704 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Kotlin

Tools

Android

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Authors (4):

Alex Forrester

Jomar Tigcal

Eran Boudjnah

Alexandru Dumbravan

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Android Foundation

2. Chapter 1: Creating Your First App FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Building User Screen Flows

4. Chapter 3: Developing the UI with Fragments

5. Chapter 4: Building App Navigation

6. Part 2: Displaying Network Calls

7. Chapter 5: Essential Libraries: Retrofit, Moshi, and Glide

8. Chapter 6: Adding and Interacting with RecyclerView

9. Chapter 7: Android Permissions and Google Maps

10. Chapter 8: Services, WorkManager, and Notifications

11. Chapter 9: Building User Interfaces Using Jetpack Compose

12. Part 3: Testing and Code Structure

13. Chapter 10: Unit Tests and Integration Tests with JUnit, Mockito, and Espresso

14. Chapter 11: Android Architecture Components

15. Chapter 12: Persisting Data

16. Chapter 13: Dependency Injection with Dagger, Hilt, and Koin

17. Part 4: Polishing and Publishing an App

18. Chapter 14: Coroutines and Flow

19. Chapter 15: Architecture Patterns

20. Chapter 16: Animations and Transitions with CoordinatorLayout and MotionLayout

21. Chapter 17: Launching Your App on Google Play

22. Index

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Navigation overview

The Android navigation user flow is built around destinations within your app. There are primary destinations available at the top level of your app and, subsequently, are always displayed in the main app navigation and secondary destinations. A guiding principle of each of the three navigation patterns is to contextually provide information about the main section of the app the user is in at any point in time.

This can take the form of a label in the top app bar of the destination the user is in, optionally displaying an arrow hint that the user is not at the top level, and/or providing highlighted text and icons in the user interface (UI) that indicate the section the user is in. Navigation in your app should be fluid and natural, intuitively guiding the user while also providing some context of where they are at any given point in time.

Each of the three navigation patterns you will explore accomplishes this goal in varying ways. Some of these navigational...

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