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About the Book
Master modern Android development with 40+ practical, production-ready recipes that take you from Kotlin fundamentals to advanced architectural patterns.
Stop piecing together fragmented Stack Overflow answers. When you search online for Android solutions, you get contradictory advice from different eras—a 2019 answer with deprecated APIs, a Reddit snippet that works but leaks memory, five "correct" approaches with no guidance on which to choose. What starts as a simple question turns into a 45-minute rabbit hole through 12 browser tabs.
Kotlin Recipes for Android Developers provides you with curated, battle-tested solutions that offer the context Stack Overflow can't provide. Each recipe delivers not just working code, but also guidance on when to use it, why it works, and what pitfalls to avoid—saving you from mistakes that you'd only discover in production.
What You'll Learn:
Starting with essential Kotlin concepts, such as null safety, immutability, and extension functions, you'll quickly move on to Android-specific techniques for managing views, lifecycles, and navigation. The book progresses through core development topics, including state management with sealed classes, networking with Retrofit and coroutines, and data persistence with Room and DataStore.
Advanced chapters cover Jetpack Compose fundamentals, dependency injection with Hilt, clean architecture patterns, and performance optimization. You'll master coroutines and Flow for reactive programming, learn to structure modular projects, and discover how to write testable, maintainable code.
With 55 recipes spanning beginner to advanced topics, this book serves as both a structured learning path and a quick reference for solving real Android development problems the Kotlin way—no hunting, no conflicting opinions, just proven solutions.
Perfect for: Android developers ready to embrace Kotlin's idioms, Java developers making the switch, and anyone looking to modernize their Android development skills with current best practices.
About the Author
Ted is a career software developer and currently serves as the CTO and Data Protection Officer at RenditionDigital International, a Dublin-based software development firm. Over the years, he has held a variety of technical roles and also taught at respected institutions such as IBM Advanced Career Education, Ateneo ITI, and Asia Pacific College. With a career in software development that stretches back to the late ’90s, Ted has seen—and coded through—many waves of change in the industry. Along the way, he’s also written a couple of books with Apress, which you can find on his Amazon Author Page.
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