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Learn Android Studio 3 with Kotlin

Efficient Android App Development

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  • © 2018

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Authors:
  1. Ted Hagos

    1. Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines

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  • Broaden your knowledge of Android Studio 3
  • Learn to develop Kotlin-based Android apps through practical examples
  • Publish your newly created apps to the Google Play store

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. The Kotlin Language

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Getting into Kotlin

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      Pages 3-31

    3. Kotlin Basics

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      Pages 33-61

    4. Functions

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      Pages 63-78

    5. Working with Types

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      Pages 79-104

    6. Lambdas and Higher Order Functions

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      Pages 105-116

    7. Collections and Arrays

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      Pages 117-131

    8. Generics

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      Pages 133-153

  3. Android Programming with Kotlin

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
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    2. Android Studio Introduction and Setup

      • Ted Hagos
      Pages 157-171

    3. Getting Started

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      Pages 173-196

    4. Activities and Layouts

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      Pages 197-219

    5. Event Handling

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      Pages 221-238

    6. Intents

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      Pages 239-282

    7. Themes and Menus

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      Pages 283-303

    8. Fragments

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      Pages 305-342

    9. Running in the Background

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      Pages 343-372

    10. Debugging

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      Pages 373-388

    11. SharedPreferences

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      Pages 389-406
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About this book

Build Android apps using the popular and efficient Android Studio 3 suite of tools, an integrated development environment (IDE) with which Android developers can now use the Kotlin programming language. With this book, you’ll learn the latest and most productive tools in the Android tools ecosystem, ensuring quick Android app development and minimal effort on your part.  Along the way, you’ll use Android Studio to develop apps tier by tier through practical examples. These examples cover core Android topics such as Activities, Intents, BroadcastReceivers, Services and AsyncTask. Then, you’ll learn how to publish your apps and sell them online and in the Google Play store.


What You’ll Learn
  • Use Android Studio 3 to quickly and confidently build your first Android apps
  • Build an Android user interface using activities and layouts, event handling, images, menus and the action bar
  • Incorporate new elements including fragments
  • Learn how data is persisted 
  • Use Kotlin to build apps



Who This Book Is For


Those who may be new to Android Studio 3 or Android Studio in general. You may or may not be new to Android development in general. Some prior experience with Java is also recommended.



Authors and Affiliations

  • Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines

    Ted Hagos

About the author

Ted Hagos is the CTO and Data Protection Officer of RenditionDigital International, a software development company based out of Dublin. Before he joined RDI, he had various software development roles and also spent time as trainer at IBM Advanced Career Education, Ateneo ITI, and Asia Pacific College. He spent many years in software development dating back to Turbo C, Clipper, dBase IV, and Visual Basic. Eventually, he found Java and spent many years there. Nowadays, he’s busy with full-stack JavaScript and Android.

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