The beginner's first stumbling block

Unfortunately, for those who do share my enthusiasm, there is a kind of glass wall on the path of progress that frustrates many aspiring Android developers.

Android asks aspiring developers to choose from three programming languages to make apps. Every Android book, even those aimed at so-called beginners, assumes that readers have at least an intermediate level of Kotlin, C++, or Java, and most need an advanced level. So, good-to-excellent programming knowledge is considered a prerequisite for learning Android.

Unfortunately, learning these languages in a completely different context to Android can sometimes be a little dull, and much of what you learn is not directly transferable into the world of Android either. You can see why beginners to Android are often put off.

It doesn't need to be like this. In this book, I have carefully placed all the Kotlin topics that you would learn in a thick and weighty Kotlin-only beginner's tome, and reworked them into three multi-chapter apps and more than a dozen quick mini-apps, starting from a simple memo app, progressing to a cool drawing app and a database app.

If you want to become a professional Android developer, or just want to have more fun when learning Kotlin and Android, this book will help.