June 15, 2021
Kotlin and Android Development featuring Jetpack: Build Better, Safer Android Apps
With the first app, Penny Drop, you create a full game complete with random die rolls, customizable rules, and AI opponents. Build lightweight Fragment views with data binding, quickly and safely update data with ViewModel classes, and handle all app navigation in a single location. Use Kotlin with Android-specific Kotlin extensions to efficiently write null-safe code without all the normal boilerplate required for pre-Jetpack + Kotlin apps. Persist and retrieve data as full objects with the Room library, then display that data with ViewModels and list records in a RecyclerView.
Next, you create the official app for the Android Baseball League. It's a fake league but a real app, where you use what you learn in Penny Drop and build up from there. Navigate all over the app via a Navigation Drawer, including specific locations via Android App Links. Handle asynchronous and web service calls with Kotlin coroutines, display that data smoothly with the Paging library, and send notifications to a user's phone from your app.
Come build Android apps the modern way with Kotlin and Jetpack!
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The Pragmatic Hero’s Journey Podcast: Karl Stolley
Karl Stolley has been teaching, researching, and writing about web development up and down the stack since graduate school. He frequently speaks at national and international academic conferences, and he’s a presenter and active participant in many professional developer groups and meetups in the Chicago area.
With the contract signed and the project officially launched, Karl is working on his debut book with the Pragmatic Bookshelf, tentatively titled WebRTC: Build Real-Time Web Applications in the Browser. Beyond the professional advancement and other things this book means to Karl, writing and publishing with Pragmatic is a straight-up bucket-list item for him.
On this episode, Karl talks about his journey to becoming a pragmatic author and why selecting the right title for your book can make all the difference.
Listen to the rest of Karl’s story on this episode of the Pragmatic Hero’s Journey podcast.
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