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

John Horton

Apr 2019 · Packt Publishing Ltd

About this ebook

Build smart looking Kotlin apps with UI and functionality for the Android platformKey FeaturesStart your Android programming career, or just have fun publishing apps on Google Play marketplaceThe first-principle introduction to Kotlin through Android, to start building easy-to-use appsLearn by example and build four real-world apps and dozens of mini-appsBook 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 the imminent arrival of the most anticipated Android update, Android 10 (Q), this book gets you started building apps compatible with the latest version of Android.

It adopts a project-style approach, where we focus on teaching the fundamentals of Android app development and the essentials of Kotlin by building three real-world apps and more than a dozen mini-apps. The book begins by giving you a strong grasp of 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. You will dive deep into Kotlin programming concepts such as variables, functions, data structures, Object-Oriented code, and how to connect your Kotlin code to the UI. You will learn to add multilingual text so that your app is accessible to millions of more potential users. You will learn how animation, graphics, and sound effects work and are implemented in your Android app.

By the end of the book, you will have sound knowledge about significant Kotlin programming concepts and start building your own fully featured Android apps.

What you will learnLearn how Kotlin and Android work togetherBuild a graphical drawing app using Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principlesBuild beautiful, practical layouts using ScrollView, RecyclerView, NavigationView, ViewPager and CardViewWrite Kotlin code to manage an apps' data using different strategies including JSON and the built-in Android SQLite databaseAdd user interaction, data captures, sound, and animation to your appsImplement dialog boxes to capture input from the userBuild a simple database app that sorts and stores the user's dataWho this book is for

This book is for people who are new to Kotlin, Android and want to develop Android apps.It also acts as a refresher for those who have some experience in programming with Android and Kotlin.

Ratings and reviews

Is there any way that this book can be added to the family library? I'm trying to get my boys into programming and do things together to make it fun.

The code in this book seems out of date. Tried using it with android studio and keep getting errors and the apps crash. For example the Simple Fragment app.

I've read about 100 pages so far (and plan to continue!). I feel like the explanations in this book are fantastic and do excellently at balancing giving a lot of information while clarifying what you should understand at that point in the book. I've taught myself other programming languages previously, and have learned that what I need to get started is an understanding of "how the software/ languages think as individuals, and how they communicate to each other" . This book feels like it's giving me that solid introduction so that I'll be able to get started and know how to search for/learn things not in this book. This book is also written with encouragement in mind, and I feel like there was a lot of effort and thought put into the perseverance of the reader.

About the author

John Horton is a programming and gaming enthusiast based in the UK. He has a passion for writing apps, games, books, and blog articles. He is the founder of Game Code School.