Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners: Build Android apps starting from zero programming experience with the new Kotlin programming language

Book Description

Android is the most popular mobile operating system in the world and Kotlin has been declared by Google as a first-class programming language to build Android apps. With this book, you’ll explore the Android 10 (Q) update, and get up to speed with building apps that are compatible with this version.

This book adopts a project-based approach, where you’ll focus on the fundamentals of Android app development and the essentials of Kotlin by building three real-world apps and a variety of mini-apps. You’ll begin by understanding how Kotlin and Android work together before gradually moving onto exploring the various Android APIs for building stunning apps for Android with ease. You will learn to make your apps more presentable using different layouts. Later chapters will take you through Kotlin programming concepts such as variables, functions, data structures, and object-oriented code, along with showing you how to connect your Kotlin code to the UI. In addition to this, you will understand how to add multilingual text so that your app is accessible to millions more potential users. Toward the concluding sections, you will learn how animation, graphics, and sound effects work, and ways to implement them in your Android app.

By the end of this book, you will have gained comprehensive knowledge of essential Kotlin programming concepts and developed the skills you need to startbuilding your own fully featured Android apps.

What you will learn

• Understand how Kotlin and Android work together
• Build a graphical drawing app using object-oriented programming(OOP) principles
• Develop beautiful, practical layouts using ScrollView, RecyclerView, NavigationView, ViewPager and CardView
• Write Kotlin code to manage an app’s data using different strategies including JSON and the built-in Android SQLite database
• Add user interaction, data captures, sound, and animation to your apps
• Implement dialog boxes to capture input from the user
• Build a simple database app that sorts and stores the user’s data

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone who is new to Kotlin and Android, and wants to develop interactive Android apps. Those who have some experience in programming with Android and Kotlin will also find thebook useful.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started with Android and Kotlin
2. Kotlin, XML, and the UI Designer
3. Exploring Android Studio and the Project Structure
4. Getting Started with Layouts and Material Design
5. Beautiful Layouts with CardView and ScrollView
6. The Android Lifecycle
7. Kotlin Variables, Operators, and Expressions
8. Kotlin Decisions and Loops
9. Kotlin Functions
10. Object-Oriented Programming
11. Inheritance in Kotlin
12. Connecting Our Kotlin to the UI and Nullability
13. Bringing Android Widgets to Life
14. Android Dialog Windows
15. Handling Data and Generating Random Numbers
16. Adapters and Recyclers
17. Data Persistence and Sharing
18. Localization
19. Animations and Interpolations
20. Drawing Graphics
21. Threads and Starting the Live Drawing App
22. Particle Systems and Handling Screen Touches
23. Android Sound Effects and the Spinner Widget
24. Design Patterns, Multiple Layouts, and Fragments
25. Advanced UI with Paging and Swiping
26. Advanced UI with Navigation Drawer and Fragment
27. Android Databases
28. A Quick Chat Before You Go