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Modern Android 13 Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Modern Android 13 Development Cookbook Over 70 recipes to solve Android development issues and create better apps with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803235578
Length 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Modern Android Development Skills 2. Chapter 2: Creating Screens Using a Declarative UI and Exploring Compose Principles FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Handling the UI State in Jetpack Compose and Using Hilt 4. Chapter 4: Navigation in Modern Android Development 5. Chapter 5: Using DataStore to Store Data and Testing 6. Chapter 6: Using the Room Database and Testing 7. Chapter 7: Getting Started with WorkManager 8. Chapter 8: Getting Started with Paging 9. Chapter 9: Building for Large Screens 10. Chapter 10: Implementing Your First Wear OS Using Jetpack Compose 11. Chapter 11: GUI Alerts – What’s New in Menus, Dialog, Toast, Snackbars, and More in Modern Android Development 12. Chapter 12: Android Studio Tips and Tricks to Help You during Development 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Implementing Room in your applications

Room is an object-relational mapping library used in Android data persistence and is the recommended data persistence in Modern Android Development. In addition, it is effortless to use, understand and maintain, and harnesses the powers of SQLiteDatabase, it also helps reduce boilerplate code, an issue many developers experience when using SQLite. Writing tests is also very straightforward and easy to understand.

The most notable advantage of Room is that it is easy to integrate with other architecture components and gives developers runtime compile checks – that is, Room will complain if you make an error or change your schema without migrating, which is practical and helps reduce crashes.

How to do it…

Let’s go ahead and create a new empty compose project and call it RoomExample. In our example project, we will create a form intake from users; this is where users can save their first and last names, date of birth...

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