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How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838984113
Length 794 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface
1. Creating Your First App 2. Building User Screen Flows FREE CHAPTER 3. Developing the UI with Fragments 4. Building App Navigation 5. Essential Libraries: Retrofit, Moshi, and Glide 6. RecyclerView 7. Android Permissions and Google Maps 8. Services, WorkManager, and Notifications 9. Unit Tests and Integration Tests with JUnit, Mockito, and Espresso 10. Android Architecture Components 11. Persisting Data 12. Dependency Injection with Dagger and Koin 13. RxJava and Coroutines 14. Architecture Patterns 15. Animations and Transitions with CoordinatorLayout and MotionLayout 16. Launching Your App on Google Play

Room

The Room persistence library acts as a wrapper between your application code and the SQLite storage. You can think of SQLite as a database that runs without its own server and saves all the application data in an internal file that's only accessible by your application (if the device is not rooted). Room will sit between the application code and the SQLite Android Framework, and it will handle the necessary Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations while exposing an abstraction that your application can use to define the data and how you want the data to be handled. This abstraction comes in the form of the following objects:

  • Entities: You can specify how you want your data to be stored and the relationships between your data.
  • Data Access Object (DAO): The operations that can be done on your data.
  • Database: You can specify the configurations that your database should have (the name of the database and migration scenarios).

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