Android UI Development with Jetpack Compose

by Thomas Künneth

Jetpack Compose is Android’s new framework for building fast, beautiful, and reliable native user interfaces. It simplifies and significantly accelerates UI development on Android using the declarative approach. This book will help developers to get hands-on with Jetpack Compose and adopt a modern way of building Android applications. The book is not an introduction to Android development, but it will build on your knowledge of how Android apps are developed.

Complete with hands-on tutorials and projects, this easy-to-follow guide will get you up to speed with the fundamentals of Jetpack Compose such as state hoisting, unidirectional data flow, and composition over inheritance and help you build your own Android apps using Compose. You'll also cover concepts such as testing, animation, and interoperability with the existing Android UI toolkit.

By the end of the book, you'll be able to write your own Android apps using Jetpack Compose.

248 pages, ebook

First published February 28, 2022

Reviews

[Sergey Pinkevich · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a very good introduction to Jetpack Compose and provides a great explanation of the basics for beginners. It has a lot of examples - from creating the first app using Compose to animations and testing. Sometimes I lacked more detailed information and some deep understanding of how it works under the hood, but in general, it is a good book from which you can start to learn Jetpack Compose

[Marek Osvald · Rating 5 out of 5]

A brief but insightful introduction to the Jetpack Compose framework covering the fundamental principles such as state handling, recomposition and View toolkit interoperability.

I found the book quite easy to read, brushing up on the Jetpack Compose fundamentals. The provided examples are easy to follow. I've spotted no factual errors or typos. A recommendation for Jetpack Compose beginners.