What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting Started with Android and Kotlin, welcomes you to the exciting world of Android and Kotlin. In this first chapter, we won't waste any time before getting started developing Android apps. We will look at what is so great about Android, what Android and Kotlin are, how they work and complement each other, and what that means to us as future developers. Moving on, we will set up the required software so that we can build and deploy a simple first app.

Chapter 2, Kotlin, XML, and the UI Designer, discusses how, at this stage, we have a working Android development environment and we have built and deployed our first app. It is obvious, however, that code autogenerated by Android Studio is not going to make the ...

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