A simple approach to developing Android applications using Android Studio Arctic Fox Essentials and Kotlin

• The latest Material Design components to build modern user interface designs
• Step-by-step instruction to building view model-based apps and modern user interface designs using the Jetpack architecture and the latest material design components
• Coding practice with the Kotlin programming language, including multi-threaded Kotlin code using Coroutines

Android Studio is an Integrated Development Environment based on the JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA. It offers developers a unique platform to design and develop Android apps using various developer tools. Fully updated for Android Studio Arctic Fox, the goal of this book is to teach the skills necessary to develop Android-based applications using the Kotlin programming language.

This book begins with an outline of the steps necessary to set up an Android development and testing environment, followed by an introduction to programming in Kotlin which includes data types, control flow, functions, lambdas, and object-oriented programming. An overview of Android Studio covers areas such as tool windows, the code editor, and the layout editor tool. An introduction to the architecture of Android is followed by an in-depth look at the design of Android applications and user interfaces using the Android Studio environment.

Early chapters detail Android architecture components such as view models, lifecycle management, Room database access, the Database Inspector, app navigation, live data, and data binding. More advanced topics such as intents are also covered, as are touch screen handling, gesture recognition, and the recording and playback of audio. This edition of the book also covers printing, transitions, cloud-based file storage, and foldable device support.

The concepts of material design are also discussed in detail, including the use of floating action buttons, Snackbars, tabbed interfaces, card views, navigation drawers, and collapsing toolbars. Other key features of Android Studio Arctic Fox and Android taught in this book include the Layout Editor, the ConstraintLayout and ConstraintSet classes, MotionLayout Editor, view binding, constraint chains, barriers, and direct reply to notifications. Chapters also explore more advanced features of Android Studio such as app links, dynamic delivery, Gradle build configuration, and submitting apps to the Google Play developer console.

• Install and configure Android Studio on Windows, macOS, and Linux
• Design complex, responsive user interface layouts
• Understand Android architecture and app lifecycle
• Integrate SQLite databases and the Android Room persistence library
• Divide large apps into dynamic feature modules
• Monitor app performances using the Android studio profiler tool

This book is for anyone who wants to learn Android application development, such as existing Android developers who want to upgrade their skills and step into the Kotlin ecosystem. To get the most from this book, you should have some previous programming experience. You will be required to download Android Studio and the Android SDK for this course, so make sure you have access to a Windows, Mac, or Linux system and some creative app ideas to develop.

1. Introduction
2. Setting up an Android Studio Development Environment
3. Creating an Example Android App in Android Studio
4. Creating an Android Virtual Device (AVD) in Android Studio
5. Using and Configuring the Android Studio AVD Emulator
6. A Tour of the Android Studio User Interface
7. Testing Android Studio Apps on a Physical Android Device
8. The Basics of the Android Studio Code Editor
9. An Overview of the Android Architecture
10. The Anatomy of an Android Application
11. An Introduction to Kotlin
12. Kotlin Data Types,Variables and Nullability
13. Kotlin Operators and Expressions
14. Kotlin Control flow
15. An Overview of Kotlin Functions and Lambdas
16. The Basics of Object Oriented Programming in Kotlin
17. An Introduction to Kotlin Inheritance and Subclassing
18. An Overview of Android View Binding
19. Understanding Android Application and Activity Lifecycles
20. Handling Android Activity State Changes
21. Android Activity State Changes by Example
22. Saving and Restoring the State of an Android Activity
23. Understanding Android Views, View Groups and Layouts
24. A Guide to the Android Studio Layout Editor Tool
25. A Guide to the Android ConstraintLayout
26. A Guide to Using ConstraintLayout in Android Studio
27. Working with ConstraintLayout Chains and Ratios in Android Studio
28. An Android Studio Layout Editor ConstraintLayout Tutorial
29. Manual XML Layout Design in Android Studio
30. Managing Constraints using Constraint Sets.
31. An Android ConstraintSet Tutorial
32. A Guide to using Apply Changes in Android Studio
33. An Overview and Example of Android Event Handling
34. Android Touch and Multi-touch Event Handling
35. Detecting Common Gestures Using the Android Gesture Detector Class
36. Implementing Custom Gesture and Pinch Recognition on Android
37. An Introduction to Android Fragments
38. Using Fragments in Android Studio - An Example
39. Modern Android App Architecture with Jetpack
40. An Android Jetpack ViewModel Tutorial
41. An Android Jetpack LiveData Tutorial
42. An Overview of Android Jetpack Data Binding
43. An Android Jetpack Data Binding Tutorial
44. An Android ViewModel Saved State Tutorial
45. Working with Android Lifecycle-Aware Components
46. An Android Jetpack Lifecycle Awareness Tutorial
47. An Overview of the Navigation Architecture Component
48. An Android Jetpack Navigation Component Tutorial
49. An Introduction to MotionLayout
50. An Android MotionLayout Editor Tutorial
51. A MotionLayout KeyCycle Tutorial
52. Working with the Floating Action Button and Snackbar
53. Creating a Tabbed Interface using the TabLayout Component
54. Working with the RecyclerView and CardView Widgets
55. Working with the AppBar and Collapsing Toolbar Layouts
56. An Android Studio Primary/Detail Flow Tutorial
57. An Overview of Android Intents
58. Android Explicit Intents – A Worked Example
59. Android Implicit Intents – A Worked Example
60. Android Broadcast Intents and Broadcast Receivers
61. An Introduction to Kotlin Coroutines
62. An Android Kotlin Coroutines Tutorial
63. An Overview of Android Services
64. An Android Direct Reply Notification Tutorial
65. Foldable Devices and Multi-Window Support
66. An Overview of Android SQLite Databases
67. The Android Room Persistence Library
68. An Android TableLayout and TableRow Tutorial
69. An Android Room Database and Repository Tutoria
70. Accessing Cloud Storage using the Android Storage Access Framework
71. An Android Storage Access Framework Example
72. An Android Picture-in-Picture Tutorial
73. Android Audio Recording and Playback using MediaPlayer and MediaRecorder
74. Printing with the Android Printing Framework
75. An Android HTML and Web Content Printing Example
76. A Guide to Android Custom Document Printing
77. An Introduction to Android App Links
78. An Android Studio App Links Tutorial
79. An Overview of Android Dynamic Feature Modules
80. An Android Studio Dynamic Feature Tutorial
81. An Overview of Gradle in Android Studio