Mastering Android Development with Kotlin

Table of contents

1. Preface
   1. What this book covers
   2. What you need for this book
   3. Who this book is for
   4. Conventions
   5. Reader feedback
   6. Customer support
      1. Downloading the example code
      2. Downloading the color images of this book
      3. Errata
      4. Piracy
      5. Questions
2. Starting with Android
   1. Why Kotlin?
   2. Kotlin for Android - it's official
   3. Downloading and configuring Android Studio
   4. Setting up Android emulators
      1. Creating a new AVD instance
      2. Duplicating an existing AVD and modifying it by need
   5. Android Debug Bridge
   6. Other important tools
   7. Initializing a Git repository
   8. Creating an Android project
   9. Setting up Gradle
   10. Explaining directory structure
   11. Defining build types and flavors
   12. Additional libraries
   13. Getting familiar with Android Manifest
   14. Main Application class
   15. Your first screen
   16. Summary
3. Building and Running
   1. Running your first Android application
   2. Meet the Logcat
      1. First case
   3. Using the Gradle build tool
   4. Debug your application
   5. Summary
4. Screens
   1. Analyzing the mockup plan
      1. Defining application activities
   2. Android layouts
      1. Using EditText views
      2. The margins attribute
      3. The padding attribute
      4. Checking out the gravity attribute
      5. Looking at other attributes
   3. Understanding Android Context
   4. Understanding fragments
      1. Fragment manager
      2. Fragments stack
   5. Creating View Pager
   6. Making animations with transitions
   7. Dialog fragments
   8. Notifications
   9. Other important UI components
   10. Summary
5. Connecting Screen Flow
   1. Creating an application bar
   2. Using the navigation drawer
   3. Connecting activities
   4. Looking deeper into Android Intents
   5. Passing information between activities and fragments
   6. Summary
6. Look and Feel
   1. Themes in the Android Framework
   2. Styles in Android
      1. Working with assets
      2. Using custom fonts
   3. Applying coloring
   4. Make your buttons look pretty
   5. Setting animations
      1. Animation sets in Android
   6. Summary
7. Permissions
   1. Permissions from Android Manifest
   2. Requesting permissions
   3. Doing it the Kotlin way
   4. Summary
8. Working with Databases
   1. Introduction to SQLite
      1. Benefits
   2. Describing our database
   3. CRUD operations
      1. Insert CRUD operation
      2. Update CRUD operation
      3. Delete CRUD operation
      4. Select CRUD operation
      5. Tying things together
   4. Summary
9. Android Preferences
   1. What are Android preferences?
   2. How can you use them?
      1. Editing (storing) preferences
      2. Removing preferences
   3. Defining your own preferences manager
   4. Summary
10. Concurrency in Android
    1. Introduction to Android concurrency
       1. Main thread
    2. Handlers and threads
       1. AsyncTask
    3. Understanding Android Looper
       1. Preparing the Looper
       2. Delayed execution
    4. Summary
11. Android Services
    1. Service categorization
       1. Foreground Android services
       2. Background Android services
       3. Bound Android services
    2. Android service basics
       1. Declaring your service
       2. Starting the service
       3. Stopping the service
       4. Binding to Android service
       5. Stopping the service
       6. Service lifecycle
    3. Defining the main application service
    4. Defining the intent service
    5. Summary
12. Messaging
    1. Understanding Android broadcasts
       1. System broadcasts
       2. Listening for broadcasts
       3. Registering from the context
       4. Receivers execution
       5. Sending broadcasts
    2. Creating your own broadcast messages
    3. Using on boot and on shutdown broadcasts
    4. Listening for network events
    5. Summary
13. Backend and API
    1. Identifying entities used
    2. Working with data classes
    3. Connect data models to a database
    4. Introduction to Retrofit
       1. Defining Retrofit service
       2. Building a Retrofit service instance
    5. Introduction to Gson with Kotson library
    6. What else is available?
       1. Retrofit alternative
       2. Gson alternative
    7. Executing our first API call
    8. Content providers
    9. Android adapters
    10. Content loaders
    11. Data binding
    12. Using lists
    13. Using grids
    14. Implementing drag and drop
    15. Summary
14. Tuning Up for High Performance
    1. Optimizing layouts
    2. Optimizing battery life
    3. Keeping your application responsive
    4. Summary
15. Testing
    1. Adding dependencies
    2. Updating folder structure
    3. Writing your first test
    4. Using test suites
       1. How to test UI
    5. Running tests
       1. Running unit tests
       2. Running instrumentation tests
    6. Summary
16. Migration to Kotlin
    1. Preparing the migration
    2. Danger signs
    3. Updating dependencies
    4. Converting classes
    5. Refactoring and cleanup
    6. Summary
17. Deploying Your Application
    1. Preparing for deployment
    2. Code obfuscation
    3. Signing your application
    4. Publishing to Google Play
    5. Summary