Pro Android with Kotlin: Developing Modern Mobile Apps with Kotlin and Jetpack

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P. SpäthPro Android with Kotlinhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8745-3_1

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Peter Späth¹  

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Leipzig, Germany

 

The Android OS was born as the child of the Android Inc. company back in 2003 and later acquired by Google LLC in 2005 . The first device running Android came into the market in 2008. Since then it ran through numerous updates, with the latest version number by mid-2022 reading 12.1.

Ever since its first build, the market share of the Android OS has been constantly increasing, and by 2021 it is said to stay above 72%. Even though the numbers vary with the sources you use, the success of the Android OS is surely undeniable. This victory partly ...