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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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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

Debugging and logging in Android Studio

Debugging and logging are crucial in Android development, and you can write log messages that appear in Logcat to help you find issues in your code or verify a piece of code executes when it should.

We will introduce this topic here, but it is unfair to say we will cover it all in just one recipe; for that reason, we will cover more about debugging and logging in Chapter 12, Android Studio Tips and Tricks to Help You during Development.

Getting ready

Let us use an example to understand logging. The following log methods are listed from the highest to lowest priority. They are proper when logging network errors, success calls, and other errors:

  • Log.e(): A log error
  • Log.w(): A log warning
  • Log.i(): Log information
  • Log.d(): Debugging shows critical messages to developers, the most used log
  • Log.v(): Verbose

A good practice is associating every log with a TAG to identify the error message in Logcat quickly. A...

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