Android Studio Jellyfish Essentials - Kotlin Edition
Developing Android Apps Using Android Studio 2023.3.1 and Kotlin
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Android Studio Jellyfish Essentials - Kotlin Edition
Developing Android Apps Using Android Studio 2023.3.1 and Kotlin
About This Book
This book, fully updated for Android Studio Jellyfish (2023.3.1) and the new UI, teaches you how to develop Android-based applications using the Kotlin programming language.
This book begins with the basics and outlines how to set up an Android development and testing environment, followed by an introduction to programming in Kotlin, including data types, control flow, functions, lambdas, and object-oriented programming. Asynchronous programming using Kotlin coroutines and flow is also covered in detail.
Chapters also cover the Android Architecture Components, including view models, lifecycle management, Room database access, content providers, the Database Inspector, app navigation, live data, and data binding.
More advanced topics such as intents are also covered, as are touch screen handling, gesture recognition, and the recording and playback of audio. This book edition also covers printing, transitions, and foldable device support.
The concepts of material design are also covered in detail, including the use of floating action buttons, Snackbars, tabbed interfaces, card views, navigation drawers, and collapsing toolbars.
Other key features of Android Studio and Android are also covered in detail, including the Layout Editor, the ConstraintLayout and ConstraintSet classes, MotionLayout Editor, view binding, constraint chains, barriers, and direct reply notifications.
Chapters also cover advanced features of Android Studio, such as App Links, Gradle build configuration, in-app billing, and submitting apps to the Google Play Developer Console.
Assuming you already have some programming experience, are ready to download Android Studio and the Android SDK, have access to a Windows, Mac, or Linux system, and have ideas for some apps to develop, you are ready to get started.
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Table of contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Setting up an Android Studio Development Environment
- 3. Creating an Example Android App in Android Studio
- 4. Creating an Android Virtual Device (AVD) in Android Studio
- 5. Using and Configuring the Android Studio AVD Emulator
- 6. A Tour of the Android Studio User Interface
- 7. Testing Android Studio Apps on a Physical Android Device
- 8. The Basics of the Android Studio Code Editor
- 9. An Overview of the Android Architecture
- 10. The Anatomy of an Android App
- 11. An Introduction to Kotlin
- 12. Kotlin Data Types, Variables, and Nullability
- 13. Kotlin Operators and Expressions
- 14. Kotlin Control Flow
- 15. An Overview of Kotlin Functions and Lambdas
- 16. The Basics of Object Oriented Programming in Kotlin
- 17. An Introduction to Kotlin Inheritance and Subclassing
- 18. An Overview of Android View Binding
- 19. Understanding Android Application and Activity Lifecycles
- 20. Handling Android Activity State Changes
- 21. Android Activity State Changes by Example
- 22. Saving and Restoring the State of an Android Activity
- 23. Understanding Android Views, View Groups and Layouts
- 24. A Guide to the Android Studio Layout Editor Tool
- 25. A Guide to the Android ConstraintLayout
- 26. A Guide to Using ConstraintLayout in Android Studio
- 27. Working with ConstraintLayout Chains and Ratios in Android Studio
- 28. An Android Studio Layout Editor ConstraintLayout Tutorial
- 29. Manual XML Layout Design in Android Studio
- 30. Managing Constraints using Constraint Sets
- 31. An Android ConstraintSet Tutorial
- 32. A Guide to Using Apply Changes in Android Studio
- 33. A Guide to Gradle Version Catalogs
- 34. An Overview and Example of Android Event Handling
- 35. Android Touch and Multi-touch Event Handling
- 36. Detecting Common Gestures Using the Android Gesture Detector Class
- 37. Implementing Custom Gesture and Pinch Recognition on Android
- 38. An Introduction to Android Fragments
- 39. Using Fragments in Android Studio - An Example
- 40. Modern Android App Architecture with Jetpack
- 41. An Android ViewModel Tutorial
- 42. An Android Jetpack LiveData Tutorial
- 43. An Overview of Android Jetpack Data Binding
- 44. An Android Jetpack Data Binding Tutorial
- 45. An Android ViewModel Saved State Tutorial
- 46. Working with Android Lifecycle-Aware Components
- 47. An Android Jetpack Lifecycle Awareness Tutorial
- 48. An Overview of the Navigation Architecture Component
- 49. An Android Jetpack Navigation Component Tutorial
- 50. An Introduction to MotionLayout
- 51. An Android MotionLayout Editor Tutorial
- 52. A MotionLayout KeyCycle Tutorial
- 53. Working with the Floating Action Button and Snackbar
- 54. Creating a Tabbed Interface using the TabLayout Component
- 55. Working with the RecyclerView and CardView Widgets
- 56. An Android RecyclerView and CardView Tutorial
- 57. Working with the AppBar and Collapsing Toolbar Layouts
- 58. An Overview of Android Intents
- 59. Android Explicit Intents – A Worked Example
- 60. Android Implicit Intents – A Worked Example
- 61. Android Broadcast Intents and Broadcast Receivers
- 62. An Introduction to Kotlin Coroutines
- 63. An Android Kotlin Coroutines Tutorial
- 64. An Overview of Android Services
- 65. Android Local Bound Services – A Worked Example
- 66. Android Remote Bound Services – A Worked Example
- 67. An Introduction to Kotlin Flow
- 68. An Android SharedFlow Tutorial
- 69. An Overview of Android SQLite Databases
- 70. An Android SQLite Database Tutorial
- 71. Understanding Android Content Providers
- 72. An Android Content Provider Tutorial
- 73. An Android Content Provider Client Tutorial
- 74. The Android Room Persistence Library
- 75. An Android TableLayout and TableRow Tutorial
- 76. An Android Room Database and Repository Tutorial
- 77. Video Playback on Android using the VideoView and MediaController Classes
- 78. Android Picture-in-Picture Mode
- 79. An Android Picture-in-Picture Tutorial
- 80. Making Runtime Permission Requests in Android
- 81. Android Audio Recording and Playback using MediaPlayer and MediaRecorder
- 82. An Android Notifications Tutorial
- 83. An Android Direct Reply Notification Tutorial
- 84. Working with the Google Maps Android API in Android Studio
- 85. Printing with the Android Printing Framework
- 86. An Android HTML and Web Content Printing Example
- 87. A Guide to Android Custom Document Printing
- 88. An Introduction to Android App Links
- 89. An Android Studio App Links Tutorial
- 90. An Android Biometric Authentication Tutorial
- 91. Creating, Testing, and Uploading an Android App Bundle
- 92. An Overview of Android In-App Billing
- 93. An Android In-App Purchasing Tutorial
- 94. Accessing Cloud Storage using the Android Storage Access Framework
- 95. An Android Storage Access Framework Example
- 96. An Android Studio Primary/Detail Flow Tutorial
- 97. Working with Material Design 3 Theming
- 98. A Material Design 3 Theming and Dynamic Color Tutorial
- 99. An Overview of Gradle in Android Studio
- Index