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

by Peter Späth
December 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
881 pages
15h 2m
English
Apress
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© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022
P. SpäthPro Android with Kotlinhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8745-3_8

8. APIs

Peter Späth1  
(1)
Leipzig, Germany
 
The subject of this chapter is APIs that are the cornerstones of your app. This includes
  • Databases

  • Scheduling

  • Notifications

  • Contacts

  • Search framework

  • Location and maps

  • Preferences

Databases

Android provides two realms for dealing with databases: either you use the SQLite library included in the Android OS, or you use the Room architecture component . The latter is recommended, since it adds an abstraction layer between the database and the client, simplifying the mapping between Kotlin objects and database storage objects . You can ...

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