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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

Using WorkManager

WorkManager is a Jetpack library for background operations that can be delayed and can run based on the constraints you set. It is ideal for doing something that must be run but can be done later or at regular intervals, regardless of whether the app is running or not.

You can use WorkManager to run tasks such as fetching the data from the network and storing it in your database at scheduled intervals. WorkManager will run the task even if the app has been closed or if the device restarts. This will keep your database up to date with your backend.

You can add WorkManager to your project by adding the following code to your app/build.gradle file dependencies:

implementation 'androidx.work:work-runtime:2.7.1'

WorkManager can call the repository to fetch and store data from either the local database or the network server.

Let’s try adding WorkManager to an Android project.

Exercise 15.03 – adding WorkManager to an Android Project...

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