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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Static fragments and dual-pane layouts

The previous exercise introduced you to static fragments, those that can be defined in the activity XML layout file. You can also create different layouts and resources for different screen sizes. This is used for deciding which resources to display depending on whether the device is a phone or a tablet.

The space for laying out UI elements can increase substantially with a larger size tablet. Android allows specifying different resources depending on many different form factors. The qualifier frequently used to define a tablet in the res (resources) folder is sw600dp.

This states that if the shortest width (sw) of the device is over 600 dp, then use these resources. This qualifier is used for 7” tablets and larger. Tablets facilitate what is known as dual-pane layouts. A pane represents a self-contained part of the user interface. If the screen is large enough, then two panes (dual-pane layouts) can be supported. This also provides...

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