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Mastering Kotlin for Android 14

You're reading from   Mastering Kotlin for Android 14 Build powerful Android apps from scratch using Jetpack libraries and Jetpack Compose

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837631711
Length 370 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Building Your App
2. Chapter 1: Get Started with Kotlin Android Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Creating Your First Android App 4. Chapter 3: Jetpack Compose Layout Basics 5. Chapter 4: Design with Material Design 3 6. Part 2: Using Advanced Features
7. Chapter 5: Architect Your App 8. Chapter 6: Network Calls with Kotlin Coroutines 9. Chapter 7: Navigating within Your App 10. Chapter 8: Persisting Data Locally and Doing Background Work 11. Chapter 9: Runtime Permissions 12. Part 3: Code Analysis and Tests
13. Chapter 10: Debugging Your App 14. Chapter 11: Enhancing Code Quality 15. Chapter 12: Testing Your App 16. Part 4: Publishing Your App
17. Chapter 13: Publishing Your App 18. Chapter 14: Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment 19. Chapter 15: Improving Your App 20. Index 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Persisting Data Locally and Doing Background Work

To provide better user experiences, we must ensure that apps don’t fetch data every time the user opens the app. At times, the user can be in areas that do not have internet access, and this can be very frustrating when the user can’t use your app in such situations. For such scenarios, we have to store data locally. We also have to store and update the data in an efficient way that doesn’t drain the device’s battery or block the user from doing other things on the app. In this chapter, we will be exploring how to do so for our apps.

In this chapter, we will learn how to save data to a local database, Room, which is part of the Jetpack libraries. We will be able to save items and read from the Room database. Additionally, we will learn how to do long-running operations using WorkManager and some of the best practices.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

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