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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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Deploying the app so far

Before we explore any of the code and learn our first bit of Kotlin, you might be surprised to learn that we can already run our project. It will be a fairly featureless screen, but as we will be running the app as often as possible to check our progress, let's see how to do that now. You have three options:

  • Run the app on the emulator on your PC (part of Android Studio) in debug mode
  • Run the app on a real Android device in USB debugging mode
  • Export the app as a full Android project that can be uploaded to the Play Store

The first option (debug mode) is the easiest to set up, because we did it as part of setting up Android Studio. If you have a powerful PC, you will hardly see the difference between the emulator and a real ...

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