Fully updated for Android Studio Bumble Bee, Android Jetpack and themodern architectural guidelines and components, the goal of this book isto teach the skills necessary to develop Android-based applicationsusing the Kotlin programming language.Beginning with the basics, this book provides an outline of the stepsnecessary to set up an Android development and testing environmentfollowed by an introduction to programming in Kotlin including datatypes, flow control, functions, lambdas, coroutines and object-orientedprogramming.An overview of Android Studio is included covering areas such as toolwindows, the code editor and the Layout Editor tool. An introduction tothe architecture of Android is followed by an in-depth look at thedesign of Android applications and user interfaces using the AndroidStudio environment.Chapters are also included covering the Android Architecture Componentsincluding view models, lifecycle management, Room databases, appnavigation, live data and data binding.More advanced topics suchas intents are also covered, as are touch screen handling, gesturerecognition and the playback and recording of audio. This edition of thebook also covers printing, transitions, cloud-based file storage andfoldable device support.The concepts of material design are also covered in detail, includingthe use of floating action buttons, Snackbars, tabbed interfaces, cardviews, navigation drawers and collapsing toolbars.Other key features of Android Studio Bumble Bee and the Android SDK arealso covered in detail including the Layout Editor, the ConstraintLayoutand ConstraintSet classes, MotionLayout animation, constraint chainsand barriers, view binding, direct reply notifications and multi-windowsupport.Chapters also cover advanced features of Android Studio such as AppLinks, Dynamic Feature Modules, the Android Studio Profiler and Gradlebuild configuration.Assuming you already have some programmingexperience, are ready to download Android Studio and the Android SDK,have access to a Windows, Mac or Linux system and ideas for some apps todevelop, you are ready to get started.Product DetailsPrint Edition Page Count: 790Print Page Size: 7.5" x 9.25"Language: EnglisheBook Format: PDF, ePub, MOBI (Kindle)Price: $29.99 (eBook) / $46.99 (Print)