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Product type Book

Published in Apr 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789615401

Pages 698 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Kotlin

Concepts

Android Development

Author (1):

John Horton

Table of Contents (33) Chapters

Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners

Contributors

Preface

1. Getting Started with Android and Kotlin

2. Kotlin, XML, and the UI Designer

3. Exploring Android Studio and the Project Structure

4. Getting Started with Layouts and Material Design

5. Beautiful Layouts with CardView and ScrollView

6. The Android Lifecycle

7. Kotlin Variables, Operators, and Expressions

8. Kotlin Decisions and Loops

9. Kotlin Functions

10. Object-Oriented Programming

11. Inheritance in Kotlin

12. Connecting Our Kotlin to the UI and Nullability

13. Bringing Android Widgets to Life

14. Android Dialog Windows

15. Handling Data and Generating Random Numbers

16. Adapters and Recyclers

17. Data Persistence and Sharing

18. Localization

19. Animations and Interpolations

20. Drawing Graphics

21. Threads and Starting the Live Drawing App

22. Particle Systems and Handling Screen Touches

23. Android Sound Effects and the Spinner Widget

24. Design Patterns, Multiple Layouts, and Fragments

25. Advanced UI with Paging and Swiping

26. Advanced UI with Navigation Drawer and Fragment

27. Android Databases

28. A Quick Chat Before You Go

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Contributors

About the author

John Horton is a programming and gaming enthusiast based in the UK. He has a passion for writing apps, games, books, and blog articles. He is the founder of Game Code School.

About the reviewers

Ashok Kumar S has been working in the mobile development domain for about six years. In his early days, he was a JavaScript and Node developer. With his strong web development skills, he mastered web and mobile development. He is a Google-certified engineer, a speaker at global conferences, such as DroidCon Berlin and MODS, and he also runs a YouTube channel called AndroidABCD for Android developers. He also contributes heavily to open source to improve his e-karma.

He has written books on WearOS programming and the Firebase toolchain. Ashok has also reviewed books on mobile and web development, namely Mastering Junit5, Android Programming for Beginners, and Developing Enterprise Applications Using JavaScript.

Mitchell Wong Ho was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he completed his national diploma in electrical engineering. Mitchell's software development career started on embedded systems and then moved to Microsoft desktop/server applications.

Mitchell has been programming in Java since 2000 on J2ME, JEE, desktop, and Android applications, and has more recently been advocating Kotlin for Android.

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