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Start your Android programming career, or just have fun publishing apps on Google Play marketplace

The first-principle introduction to Kotlin through Android, to start building easy-to-use apps

Learn by example and build four real-world apps and dozens of mini-apps

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Android is the most popular mobile operating system in the world and Kotlin has been declared by Google as a first-class programming language to build Android apps. With the imminent arrival of the most anticipated Android update, Android 10 (Q), this book gets you started building apps compatible with the latest version of Android. It adopts a project-style approach, where we focus on teaching the fundamentals of Android app development and the essentials of Kotlin by building three real-world apps and more than a dozen mini-apps. The book begins by giving you a strong grasp of how Kotlin and Android work together before gradually moving onto exploring the various Android APIs for building stunning apps for Android with ease. You will learn to make your apps more presentable using different layouts. You will dive deep into Kotlin programming concepts such as variables, functions, data structures, Object-Oriented code, and how to connect your Kotlin code to the UI. You will learn to add multilingual text so that your app is accessible to millions of more potential users. You will learn how animation, graphics, and sound effects work and are implemented in your Android app. By the end of the book, you will have sound knowledge about significant Kotlin programming concepts and start building your own fully featured Android apps.

What you will learn

Learn how Kotlin and Android work together

Build a graphical drawing app using Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles

Build beautiful, practical layouts using ScrollView, RecyclerView, NavigationView, ViewPager and CardView

Write Kotlin code to manage an apps data using different strategies including JSON and the built-in Android SQLite database

Add user interaction, data captures, sound, and animation to your apps

Implement dialog boxes to capture input from the user

Build a simple database app that sorts and stores the user s data

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N/A Jan 25, 2024

very good book, i'm on chapter 4 now, keeps you motivating to go step by step

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Tukkie Aug 28, 2021

This book is badly out of date. Its examples of Android Studio projects do not agree with the latest Android studio! Pity I cannot return it.

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Ron Bremner Aug 21, 2021

The same author, John Horton, has another book out that is two years newer. In programming, that's like 100 human years. That is also available by Amazon, and the book is titled, 'Android Programming for Beginners: Build in-depth, full-featured Android apps starting from zero programming experience, 3rd Edition'

Gunther Schmitt May 28, 2021

Das Buch wäre eigentlich hervorragend für Anfänger zum Einstieg in Android/Kotlin, weil: - motivierender Schreibstil - anfangs gleich nette Erfolgserlebnisse - gute Erklärungenwenn nicht: - veraltete IDE-Version: viele Programmierbeispiele funktionieren nicht - viele Fehler im Text, in den Listings und Code-Beispielen - ab dem ersten Drittel zu große Schritte beim Eintauchen in die Tiefen der Android/Kotlin- Programmierung - keine Errata/ Korrekturen/ aktualisierte Codebeispiele auf der Verlags-WebseiteFazit:Dieses Buch war bei seinem Erscheinen (April 2019) - trotz der vielen Fehler im Text und in den Listings bestimmt aktuell und brauchbar.Jetzt (Mai 2021) ist es für Anfänger zum Einstieg absolut ungeeignet. Etliche wesentliche Programmierfunktionen, z.B. das essentielle ViewBinding, wurden in der Zwischenzeit überholt, ersetzt und ausgemustert.Der unerfahrene Programmierneuling sitzt dadurch ratlos vor seinem Bildschirm und muss sich seine notwendigen Informationsupdates aus dem Netz saugen. Das mag im (mühseligen) Erfolgsfall zwar pädagogisch sehr effektiv sein, wenn es aber nicht klappt, ist es hochgradig enttäuschend. Und dieses Gefühl überwiegt leider, je komplexer die Themen werden.Wer sich als Einsteiger dieses Buch dennoch kaufen möchte, sollte deshalb maximal frustrationstolerant sein.

GOBINDA R. Mar 18, 2021

I brought this book as kindle addition. The book writer language is very easy to understand. And the content of the book is very helpful for me, as I just started to learn the code. This book is very useful also for beginners. It covers every topic in details. So, if you are searching for a cotlin programming book, then you must give this book a try, trust me.

Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners: Build Android apps starting from zero programming experience with the new Kotlin programming language

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