You're reading from How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin A practical guide to developing, testing, and publishing your first Android apps

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837634934

Length 704 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Kotlin

Tools

Android

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Authors (4):

Alex Forrester

Jomar Tigcal

Eran Boudjnah

Alexandru Dumbravan

View More author details

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Android Foundation

2. Chapter 1: Creating Your First App FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Building User Screen Flows

4. Chapter 3: Developing the UI with Fragments

5. Chapter 4: Building App Navigation

6. Part 2: Displaying Network Calls

7. Chapter 5: Essential Libraries: Retrofit, Moshi, and Glide

8. Chapter 6: Adding and Interacting with RecyclerView

9. Chapter 7: Android Permissions and Google Maps

10. Chapter 8: Services, WorkManager, and Notifications

11. Chapter 9: Building User Interfaces Using Jetpack Compose

12. Part 3: Testing and Code Structure

13. Chapter 10: Unit Tests and Integration Tests with JUnit, Mockito, and Espresso

14. Chapter 11: Android Architecture Components

15. Chapter 12: Persisting Data

16. Chapter 13: Dependency Injection with Dagger, Hilt, and Koin

17. Part 4: Polishing and Publishing an App

18. Chapter 14: Coroutines and Flow

19. Chapter 15: Architecture Patterns

20. Chapter 16: Animations and Transitions with CoordinatorLayout and MotionLayout

21. Chapter 17: Launching Your App on Google Play

22. Index

Why subscribe?

23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about Android permissions. We touched on the reasons for having them and saw how we could request the user’s permission to perform certain tasks. We also learned how to use Google’s Maps API and how to present the user with an interactive map.

Lastly, we leveraged our knowledge of presenting a map and requesting permissions to find out the user’s current location and present it on the map. Of course, there is a lot more that can be done with the Google Maps API, and you could explore a lot more possibilities with certain permissions.

You should now have enough understanding of the foundations to explore further. To read more about permissions, visit https://packt.link/57BdN. To read more about the Maps API, visit https://packt.link/8akrP.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to perform background tasks using Services and WorkManager. We will also learn how to present the user with notifications, even when the app is...

The rest of the chapter is locked

You're reading from How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin A practical guide to developing, testing, and publishing your first Android apps

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Summary

Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days

Authors (4)