Pro Android with Kotlin: Developing Modern Mobile Apps - Softcover

Späth, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1484238192 ISBN 13: 9781484238196

Publisher: Apress, 2018

Synopsis

Develop Android apps with Kotlin to create more elegant programs than the Java equivalent. This book covers the various aspects of a modern Android app that professionals are expected to encounter. There are chapters dealing with all the important aspects of the Android platform, including GUI design, file- and data-handling, coping with phone calls, multimedia apps, interaction with location and mapping services, monetizing apps, and much more.

Pro Android with Kotlin is an invaluable source for developers wanting to build real-world state-of-the-art apps for modern Android devices.

What You Will Learn

• Integrate activities, such as intents, services, toasts and more, into your Android apps
  
• Build UIs in Android using layouts, widgets, lists, menus, and action bars 
  
• Deal with data in your Android apps using data persistence and cloud access 
  
• Design for different Android devices
  
• Create multimedia apps in Android
  
• Secure, deploy, and monetize your Android apps
  

Who This Book Is For

Professional Android app developers.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Späth graduated in 2002 as a physicist and soon afterward became an IT consultant, mainly for Java related projects. In 2016 he decided to concentrate on writing books on various subjects, with a primary focus on software development. With a wealth of experience in Java-related languages, the release of Kotlin for building Android Apps made him enthusiastic about writing books for Kotlin development in the Android environment.

From the Back Cover

Develop Android apps with Kotlin to create more elegant programs than the Java equivalent. This book covers the various aspects of a modern Android app that professionals are expected to encounter. There are chapters dealing with all the important aspects of the Android platform, including GUI design, file- and data-handling, coping with phone calls, multimedia apps, interaction with location and mapping services, monetizing apps, and much more.

Pro Android with Kotlin is an invaluable source for developers wanting to build real-world state-of-the-art apps for modern Android devices.

You will:

• Integrate activities, such as intents, services, toasts and more, into your Android apps
  
• Build UIs in Android using layouts, widgets, lists, menus, and action bars 
  
• Deal with data in your Android apps using data persistence and cloud access 
  
• Design for different Android devices
  
• Create multimedia apps in Android
  
• Secure, deploy, and monetize your Android apps

Edition details

• Publisher: Apress
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1484238192
• ISBN 13: 9781484238196
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512