You're reading from Android UI Development with Jetpack Compose Bring declarative and native UI to life quickly and easily on Android using Jetpack Compose and Kotlin

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837634255

Length 278 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Kotlin

Tools

Android

Concepts

Android Development

Author (1):

Thomas Künneth

Preface

1. Part 1: Fundamentals of Jetpack Compose

2. Chapter 1: Building Your First Compose App FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Understanding the Declarative Paradigm

4. Chapter 3: Exploring the Key Principles of Compose

5. Part 2: Building User Interfaces

6. Chapter 4: Laying Out UI Elements in Compose

7. Chapter 5: Managing State of Your Composable Functions

8. Chapter 6: Building a Real-World App

9. Chapter 7: Exploring App Architecture

10. Part 3: Advanced Topics

11. Chapter 8: Working with Animations

12. Chapter 9: Exploring Interoperability APIs

13. Chapter 10: Testing and Debugging Compose Apps

14. Chapter 11: Developing for Different Form Factors

15. Chapter 12: Bringing Your Compose UI to Different Platforms

16. Index

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exercise

Android Studio offers an Interactive Mode for composable functions. This is great to see how they react to user input:

Figure 2.5 – Interactive Mode

Please give Interactive Mode a try and answer the following questions:

What happens if you click inside the preview area when Interactive Mode is not active?
What is the difference between Interactive Mode and Run Preview?

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