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How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837634934
Length 704 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

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 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Tabbed navigation

Tabbed navigation is mostly used when you want to display related items. It is common to have fixed tabs if there’s only a few of them (typically between two and five tabs) and scrolling horizontal tabs if you have more than five tabs. They are used mostly for grouping destinations that are at the same hierarchical level.

This can be the primary navigation if the destinations are related. This might be the case if the app you developed is in a narrow or specific subject field where the primary destinations are related, such as a news app. More commonly, it is used with bottom navigation to present secondary navigation that’s available within a primary destination. The following exercise demonstrates using tabbed navigation for displaying related items.

Exercise 4.03 – using tabs for app navigation

Create a new app in Android Studio with an Empty Activity named Tab Navigation. You are going to build a skeleton movies app that displays...

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