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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Bottom navigation

Bottom navigation is used when there are a limited number of top-level destinations, and these can range from three to five primary destinations that are not related to each other. Each item on the bottom navigation bar displays an icon and an optional text label.

This navigation allows quick access as the items are always available, no matter which secondary destination of the app the user navigates to.

Exercise 4.02 – adding bottom navigation to your app

Create a new app in Android Studio named Bottom Navigation using the Empty Activity project template, leaving all the other defaults as they are. Do not use the Bottom Navigation Activity project template, as we are going to use incremental steps to build the app.

You will build a loyalty app that provides offers, rewards, and so on for customers who have signed up to use it. Bottom navigation is quite common for this kind of app because there will typically be limited top-level destinations.

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