Learn Android Studio 3 with Kotlin: Efficient Android App Development

Build Android apps using the popular and efficient Android Studio 3 suite of tools, an integrated development environment (IDE) with which Android developers can now use the Kotlin programming language. With this book, you’ll learn the latest and most productive tools in the Android tools ecosystem, ensuring quick Android app development and minimal effort on your part.  Along the way, you’ll use Android Studio to develop apps tier by tier through practical examples. These examples cover core Android topics such as Activities, Intents, BroadcastReceivers, Services and AsyncTask. Then, you’ll learn how to publish your apps and sell them online and in the Google Play store.

What You’ll Learn

• Use Android Studio 3 to quickly and confidently build your first Android apps
• Build an Android user interface using activities and layouts, event handling, images, menus and the action bar
• Incorporate new elements including fragments
• Learn how data is persisted
• Use Kotlin to build apps

Who This Book Is For

Those who may be new to Android Studio 3 or Android Studio in general. You may or may not be new to Android development in general. Some prior experience with Java is also recommended.

Table of Contents

Part I: The Kotlin Language
Chapter 1: Getting into Kotlin
Chapter 2: Kotlin Basics
Chapter 3: Functions
Chapter 4: Working with Types
Chapter 5: Lambdas and Higher Order Functions
Chapter 6: Collections and Arrays
Chapter 7: Generics

Part II: Android Programming with Kotlin
Chapter 8: Android Studio Introduction and Setup
Chapter 9: Getting Started
Chapter 10: Activities and Layouts
Chapter 11: Event Handling
Chapter 12: Intents
Chapter 13: Themes and Menus
Chapter 14: Fragments
Chapter 15: Running in the  Background
Chapter 16: Debugging
Chapter 17: SharedPreferences
Chapter 18: Internal Storage
Chapter 19: BroadcastReceivers
Chapter 20: App Distribution