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Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners
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Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners

by John Horton
April 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
698 pages
15h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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Our first Android app

Now we can get started on our first app. In programming, it is tradition for the first app of a new student to use whatever language/OS they are using to say hello to the world. We will quickly build an app that does just that, and, in Chapter 2, Kotlin, XML, and the UI Designer, we will go beyond that and add some buttons that respond to the user when they are clicked.

Note

The complete code as it stands at the end of this chapter is in the download bundle in the Chapter01 folder for your reference. You can't simply copy and paste this code, however. You still need to go through the project creation phase explained in this chapter (and at the beginning of all projects) as Android Studio does lots of work behind the scenes. ...

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