Mastering Android Development with Kotlin

Kotlin is a programming language intended to be a better Java, and it's designed to be usable and readable across large teams with different levels of knowledge. As a language, it helps developers build amazing Android applications in an easy and effective way."margin-top: -4px; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"This book begins giving you a strong grasp of Kotlin's features in the context of Android development and its APIs. Moving on, you'll take steps toward building stunning applications for Android. The book will show you how to set up the environment, and the difficulty level will grow steadily with the applications covered in the upcoming chapters."margin-top: -4px; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"Later on, the book will introduce you to the Android Studio IDE, which plays an integral role in Android development. We'll use Kotlin's basic programming concepts such as functions, lambdas, properties, object-oriented code, safety aspects, type parameterization, testing, and concurrency, which will guide you through writing Kotlin code into production. We'll also show you how to integrate Kotlin into any existing Android project. style"margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"What you will learn
Understand the basics of Android development with Kotlin
Get to know the key concepts in Android development
See how to create modern mobile applications for the Android platform
Adjust your application's look and feel
Know how to persist and share application database
Work with Services and other concurrency mechanisms
Write effective tests
Migrate an existing Java-based project to Kotlin
style"margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"About the Author"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"Milos Vasic is a software engineer, author, and open source enthusiast. He holds a bachelor's degree in the programming of computer graphics and a master's degree in the field of Android programming; both degrees were gained at Singidunum University. He published his first book, Fundamental Kotlin, in October 2016, thus achieving his dream of becoming an author. He's currently employed at the Robert Bosch company, where he's working on SDKs for the auto-industry. When he is not working on new books, Milos works on his open source projects. style"margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"Table of Contents
Starting with Android
Building and Running
Screens
Connecting Screen Flow
Look and Feel
Working with Permissions
Working with Databases
Android Preferences
Concurrency in Android
Android Services
Messaging
Backend and API
Tuning up for High Performance
Testing
Migration to Kotlin
Deploying Your Application