How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin

Are you keen to get started building Android 11 apps, but don't know where to start? How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin is a comprehensive guide that will help kick-start your Android development practice.

This book starts with the fundamentals of app development, enabling you to utilize Android Studio and Kotlin to get started building Android projects. You'll learn how to create apps and run them on virtual devices through guided exercises. Progressing through the chapters, you'll delve into Android's RecyclerView to make the most of lists, images, and maps, and see how to fetch data from a web service.

Moving ahead, you'll get to grips with testing, learn how to keep your architecture clean, understand how to persist data, and gain basic knowledge of the dependency injection pattern. Finally, you'll see how to publish your apps on the Google Play store.

You'll work on realistic projects that are split up into bitesize exercises and activities, allowing you to challenge yourself in an enjoyable and attainable way. You'll build apps to create quizzes, read news articles, check weather reports, store recipes, retrieve movie information, and remind you where you parked your car.

By the end of this book, you'll have the skills and confidence to build your own creative Android applications using Kotlin.

你渴望開始建立 Android 11 應用程式，但不知道從何開始嗎？《使用 Kotlin 建立 Android 應用程式》是一本全面的指南，將幫助您啟動 Android 開發實踐。

本書從應用程式開發的基礎知識開始，讓您能夠利用 Android Studio 和 Kotlin 開始建立 Android 專案。通過引導式練習，您將學習如何創建應用程式並在虛擬設備上運行。隨著章節的進展，您將深入研究 Android 的 RecyclerView，以充分利用列表、圖像和地圖，並了解如何從 Web 服務中獲取數據。

接下來，您將掌握測試技巧，學習如何保持架構的整潔，了解如何持久保存數據，並獲得關於依賴注入模式的基本知識。最後，您將了解如何在 Google Play 商店上發布應用程式。

您將在切合實際的專案中進行分解的練習和活動，以有趣且可實現的方式挑戰自己。您將建立應用程式來創建測驗、閱讀新聞文章、查看天氣報告、儲存食譜、檢索電影資訊，以及提醒您停車的位置。

通過閱讀本書，您將具備使用 Kotlin 建立自己創意 Android 應用程式的技能和信心。