Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners: Build Android apps starting from zero programming experience with the new Kotlin programming language (English Edition)

Build robust Kotlin apps with an efficient UI and smooth functionality for the Android platform

Key Features

Start building easy-to-use apps featuring an intuitive user interface

Understand how to publish your apps on Google Play

Learn by example and build four real-world apps and a variety of mini-apps

Book Description

Android is the most popular mobile operating system in the world and Kotlin has been declared by Google as a first-class programming language to build Android apps. With this book, you'll explore the Android 10 (Q) update, and get up to speed with building apps that are compatible with this version.

This book adopts a project-based approach, where you'll focus on the fundamentals of Android app development and the essentials of Kotlin by building three real-world apps and a variety of mini-apps. You'll begin by understanding how Kotlin and Android work together before gradually moving onto exploring the various Android APIs for building stunning apps for Android with ease. You will learn to make your apps more presentable using different layouts. Later chapters will take you through Kotlin programming concepts such as variables, functions, data structures, and object-oriented code, along with showing you how to connect your Kotlin code to the UI. In addition to this, you will understand how to add multilingual text so that your app is accessible to millions more potential users. Toward the concluding sections, you will learn how animation, graphics, and sound effects work, and ways to implement them in your Android app.

By the end of this book, you will have gained comprehensive knowledge of essential Kotlin programming concepts and developed the skills you need to startbuilding your own fully featured Android apps.

What you will learn

Understand how Kotlin and Android work together

Build a graphical drawing app using object-oriented programming(OOP) principles

Develop beautiful, practical layouts using ScrollView, RecyclerView, NavigationView, ViewPager and CardView

Write Kotlin code to manage an app's data using different strategies including JSON and the built-in Android SQLite database

Add user interaction, data captures, sound, and animation to your apps

Implement dialog boxes to capture input from the user

Build a simple database app that sorts and stores the user's data

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone who is new to Kotlin and Android, and wants to develop interactive Android apps. Those who have some experience in programming with Android and Kotlin will also find thebook useful.

Table of Contents

Getting Started with Android and Kotlin

Kotlin, XML, and the UI Designer

Exploring Android Studio and the Project Structure

Getting Started with Layouts and Material Design

Beautiful Layouts with CardView and ScrollView

The Android Lifecycle

Kotlin Variables, Operators, and Expressions

Kotlin Decisions and Loops

Kotlin Functions

Object-Oriented Programming

Inheritance in Kotlin

Connecting Our Kotlin to the UI and Nullability

Bringing Android Widgets to Life

Android Dialog Windows

Handling Data and Generating Random Numbers

Adapters and Recyclers

Data Persistence and Sharing

Localization

Animations and Interpolations

Drawing Graphics

Threads and Starting the Live Drawing App

Particle Systems and Handling Screen Touches

Android Sound Effects and the Spinner Widget

Design Patterns, Multiple Layouts, and Fragments

Advanced UI with Paging and Swiping

Advanced UI with Navigation Drawer and Fragment

Android Databases

A Quick Chat Before You Go

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