Kickstart Modern Android Development with Jetpack and Kotlin

by Cătălin Ghită

Explore modern Android development in Kotlin 1.6.10 with this condensed hands-on guide to building reliable apps using libraries such as Compose, ViewModel, Hilt, Retrofit, Flow, and more With Jetpack libraries, you can build and design high-quality, robust Android apps that have an improved architecture and work consistently across different versions and devices. This book will help you understand how Jetpack allows developers to follow best practices and architectural patterns when building Android apps while also eliminating boilerplate code. Developers working with Android and Kotlin will be able to put their knowledge to work with this condensed practical guide to building apps with the most popular Jetpack libraries, including Jetpack Compose, ViewModel, Hilt, Room, Paging, Lifecycle, and Navigation. You'll get to grips with relevant libraries and architectural patterns, including popular libraries in the Android ecosystem such as Retrofit, Coroutines, and Flow while building modern applications with real-world data. By the end of this Android app development book, you'll have learned how to leverage Jetpack libraries and your knowledge of architectural concepts for building, designing, and testing robust Android applications for various use cases. This book is for junior and intermediate-level Android developers looking to level up their Android development skills to develop high-quality apps using Jetpack libraries and other cutting-edge technologies. Beginners with knowledge of Android development fundamentals will also find this book useful. Familiarity with Kotlin is assumed.

472 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2022

About the author

CĂTĂLIN GHIȚĂ (n. 18.10.1976) este, din 2015, prof. univ. dr. hab. la Facultatea de Litere a Universităţii din Craiova și membru al Școlii Doctorale „Al. Piru“, unde conduce doctorate în literatură comparată. Principalele sale direcții de cercetare sunt: poezia vizionară europeană, romantismul din perspectivă comparatistă, frica și anxietatea în istoria mentalităților, teorii ale receptării literaturii, relațiile intelectuale dintre Orient și Occident și istoria culturală a secolului al XX-lea. A publicat peste 20 de volume, apărute în țară și în străinătate, pentru care a primit numeroase distincții literare. Între altele, este membru al PEN România și al Uniunii Scriitorilor din România.

Reviews

[Ewald · Rating 5 out of 5]

Catalin is a great tutor, and this book lives up to his reputation for being able to distill information down into easy to grasp chunks. What I enjoyed the most about the book is how many modern topics are covered in full. With the ever-changing Android landscape, it's often difficult to find a good book that's suitable to most developers, but I think this one hits the sweet spot.

There's plenty of information on the Jetpack libraries, with practical examples to guide you as you learn to use these powerful helpers to build great Android applications. Even as an experienced developer, I found the book helpful in that it saved me lots of effort and hassle to find out how something like Hilt works, the right way.

For less experienced developers, there's an entire Android development course hidden in the book if you follow it from start to finish. In that regard, I feel it's very well suited to those developers that have completed the Google tutorials and are wondering how to turn their knowledge into something practical. With the book as guidance, you'll be writing modern, performant and delightful apps in no time.

This is definitely one I'm keeping around as a reference, because it's so easy to just jump to a chapter and do a quick refresh on Jetpack Navigation, for example. Definitely worth adding to your collection.

[Hafiz Hussain · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good book to refresh your android skill with modern Android development libs.