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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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Eran Boudjnah Eran Boudjnah
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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

Jetpack Navigation

Using dynamic and static fragments, although very flexible, introduces a lot of boilerplate code into your app and can become quite complicated when user journeys require adding, removing, and replacing multiple fragments while managing the back stack. Google introduced the Jetpack components, as you learned in Chapter 1, Creating Your First App, to use established best practices in your code. The Navigation component within the suite of Jetpack components enables you to reduce boilerplate code and simplify navigation within your app. We are going to use it now to update the Star Sign app to use this component.

Exercise 3.05: Adding a Jetpack Navigation Graph

In this exercise, we are going to reuse most of the classes and resources from the last exercise. We will first create an empty project and copy the resources. Next, we will add the dependencies and create a navigation graph. Using a step-by-step approach, we will configure the navigation graph and add...

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