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Android UI Development with Jetpack Compose

You're reading from   Android UI Development with Jetpack Compose Bring declarative and native UIs to life quickly and easily on Android using Jetpack Compose

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801812160
Length 248 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Fundamentals of Jetpack Compose
2. Chapter 1: Building Your First Compose App FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Understanding the Declarative Paradigm 4. Chapter 3: Exploring the Key Principles of Compose 5. Part 2:Building User Interfaces
6. Chapter 4: Laying Out UI Elements 7. Chapter 5: Managing the State of Your Composable Functions 8. Chapter 6: Putting Pieces Together 9. Chapter 7: Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices 10. Part 3:Advanced Topics
11. Chapter 8: Working with Animations 12. Chapter 9: Exploring Interoperability APIs 13. Chapter 10: Testing and Debugging Compose Apps 14. Chapter 11: Conclusion and Next Steps 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to write our first composables: Kotlin functions that have been annotated with @Composable. Composable functions are the core building blocks of Jetpack Compose-based UIs. You combined existing library composables with your own to create beautiful app screens. To see a preview, we can add the @Preview annotation. To use Jetpack Compose in a project, both build.gradle files must be configured accordingly.

In Chapter 2, Understanding the Declarative Paradigm, we will take a closer look at the differences between the declarative approach of Jetpack Compose and the imperative nature of traditional UI frameworks such as Android's view-based component library.

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Android UI Development with Jetpack Compose
Published in: Feb 2022
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781801812160
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