Learn Simply: Android Mobile Application Development using Kotlin
Learn Simply: Android Mobile Application Development using Kotlin
Mastering Android Programming
About the Book
Many learners are overwhelmed by the many online resources that they try but did not work when developing a mobile application. By focusing on a curriculum that is tested by many students when they learn mobile development. You will learn in a simple easy to understand way. You will get content that is written by a faculty who teaches mobile development in Android since 2013.
In this book, you will learn in simple steps how to develop mobile applications using Kotlin. First, you will be introduced to Kotlin programming. After that, you will learn how to use Kotlin for Android mobile development. The pattern followed to develop the mobile applications is simplified to be: start with an idea, design the solution, and code the solution.
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Preface
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Kotlin Programming
- Hello World
- Comments
- Variables and Constants
- Convert dataType
- Math operations
- Logical operators
- If statement
- When (Similar to switch statement)
- For loop
- While and Do..While loop
- String type
- Null safety
- Arrays
- Array List (Linked list)
- HashMap
- Function
- Classes
- Android and Kotlin
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First Mobile Application
- Idea
- Design
- Coding
- Exercise
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Layout Design
- ConstraintLayout
- LinearLayout
- RelativeLayout
- GridLayout
- Exercise
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Views (Widgets)
- Introduction
- Pick SpongeBob Character
- Exercise
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Data-Driven Containers
- Vocabulary game (using ArrayList)
- Vocabulary game (using File)
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Intents
- Introduction
- Implicit Intent Example - Opening a URL
- Explicit Intent Example - Restaurant App using ListView
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Activity Life Cycle
- Understanding the Lifecycle
- An App. that Shows a Message on each Stage of the Activity Lifecycle
- Purpose of the Lifecycle Phases
- How to save the application state?
- Stopwatch application
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RESTful Web API
- Introduction
- REST and HTTP
- JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
- RESTful Web API and Web services
- ToDo list application using Web API
- Cats images application using Web API
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Action Bar
- Introduction
- Simple Action bar app.
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SQLite Database
- What is a database?
- Where is the Data?
- How to talk to the database?
- My Notes Application
- View on-device files with Device File Explorer
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Cloud Database - Firebase
- RESTful Web Services
- Mobile Backend as a Service
- Firebase Realtime Database
- How Firebase store data?
- Firebase for Android
- A simple chat application using Firebase
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Localization
- Introduction
- Internationalized using strings.xml
- Game switchboard with two languages
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Location
- Introduction
- Pick city application
- About the Author
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