Programming Android with Kotlin

Pierre-Olivier Laurence & Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez & Mike Dunn

Language: English

Published: Aug 25, 2021

Description:

Android development is so vast that mastering this mobile operating system can seem daunting--particularly now that Kotlin has become the official Android development language. This book helps Android developers make the transition from Java to Kotlin and shows them how Kotlin provides a true advantage for gaining control over asynchronous computations.

By focusing specifically on coroutines, a new asynchronous programming paradigm, this book describes how you can achieve structured concurrency with Kotlin. Authors Pierre-Oliver Laurence, Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez, and Mike Dunn provide implementations of the most common tasks in native Android development.

  • The basics of the Kotlin language and the Android architecture
  • Data transformations in Kotlin
  • Android fundamentals in memory and threading
  • Concurrency with coroutines
  • Channels and flows
  • Android profiling tools