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The First Line of Code

Android Programming with Kotlin

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  • © 2022

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Authors:
  1. Lin Guo

    1. STCA WebXT Edge Mobile, Microsoft, Suzhou, China

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  • Offers step-by-step procedures for learning both Android and Kotlin
  • Provides complete instructions for building an Android application from scratch
  • Shares many tips and insights of Android and Kotlin programming for beginners and practitioners

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Your First Line of Android Code

    • Lin Guo
    Pages 1-31

  3. Explore New Language: A Quick Introduction to Kotlin

    • Lin Guo
    Pages 33-86

  4. Start with the Visible: Explore Activity

    • Lin Guo
    Pages 87-146

  5. Everything About UI Development

    • Lin Guo
    Pages 147-219

  6. Support Phones and Tablets with Fragment

    • Lin Guo
    Pages 221-257

  7. Broadcasts in Details

    • Lin Guo
    Pages 259-296

  8. Data Persistence

    • Lin Guo
    Pages 297-343

  9. Share Data Between Apps with ContentProvider

    • Lin Guo
    Pages 345-385

  10. Enrich Your App with Multimedia

    • Lin Guo
    Pages 387-429

  11. Work on the Background Service

    • Lin Guo
    Pages 431-467

  12. Exploring New World with Network Technologies

    • Lin Guo
    Pages 469-517

  13. Best UI Experience: Material Design in Action

    • Lin Guo
    Pages 519-574

  14. High-Quality Developing Components: Exploring Jetpack

    • Lin Guo
    Pages 575-617

  15. Keep Stepping Up: More Skills You Need to Know

    • Lin Guo
    Pages 619-640

  16. Real Project Practice: Creating a Weather App

    • Lin Guo
    Pages 641-709
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About this book

The First Line of Code is a must-have for developers who want to learn Android and Kotlin, and the best-seller in China. Knowledge between Android and Kotlin is interspersed in a way that readers are easy to understand and get start:

·         Android part covers all the important aspects of the Android platform, such as activity, service, content provider, broadcast receiver, fragment, basic UI, data storage, network, Jetpack and other application-level knowledge.

·         Kotlin part covers various aspects of Kotlin, such as standard grammar, common skills, higher-order functions, generics, coroutines, DSL and other language-level knowledge.

In addition, The First Line of Code is a very practicing book, illustrating concepts with a complete weather forecast program. You can use and practice all the knowledge comprehensively after learning and see the actual result for what you have learned through the book.

All contents of the book are quite easy to understand. It might be a good choice for both beginners and experienced developers. Also suitable for college students, college teachers, etc.

Authors and Affiliations

  • STCA WebXT Edge Mobile, Microsoft, Suzhou, China

    Lin Guo

About the author

Lin Guo. An Android developer working in Microsoft. The Second Android GDE (Google Developer Expert) in China. Engaged in Android development since 2010. With well developing experience and wrote several popular open-source libraries on GitHub.

He maintains a technical blog on CSDN (one of Chinese largest computer technical forum) since 2013 and posted over 100 articles for sharing developing skills. Currently the blog has more than 10 million visits.

First Line of Android (Chinese Edition) is written by him and has been well received by readers since published. The first two editions of this book have already sold more than 250,000 copies, which is the best-seller in books of Android in China.

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