My First Mobile App for Students : A comprehensive guide to Android app development for beginners

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Acknowledgements
Preface
Table of Contents
1. Welcome, Future App Developer
   Introduction
   Structure
   Objectives
   History of Android OS
   History of Kotlin
   Market impact of Mobile operating systems
   Setting up Android Studio
      Windows installation
      Mac installation
      Linux installation
   Android SDK setup
   Kotlin classes and objects
      Class in Kotlin
      Object in Kotlin
   Functions and variables in Kotlin
      Function
      Variables
   Conditions and loops
      If expression
      When expression
      Loops
         For
         While
   Conclusion
   Points to remember
   Exercises
2. App 1—Dynamic Dice Simulator (Part 1)
   Introduction
   Structure
   Objectives
   Android project wizard
   Android studio interface
   Android app project structure
   Android design editor interface
   Adding drawables
   View
   Viewgroups
   ConstraintLayout
   Adding TextView
   Adding button
   Adding ImageView
   XML editor
   Editing attributes of views
   Coding Kotlin function
   Activity and types of activities
   Event listener
   Emulator
   Developer mode in Android phones
   Running the app
   Gradle build
   Conclusion
   Exercises
3. App 1—Dynamic Dice Simulator (Part 2)
   Introduction
   Structure
   Objectives
   Multiple activities in app
   Intent
   Types of Intent
   Companion object in Kotlin
   Passing data through intent
   Intent filter
   Android manifest
   Motion layout
   Motion editor
   Motion scene
   Transition
   Finishing up the app
   Conclusion
   Exercises
4. App 2—State Trivia
   Introduction
   Structure
   Objectives
   Collection and generics
   Model and data class
      Data class
      Create the new app
      Data source
   Material design
      Updating to Material 3 theme
   Changing the app icon
   ViewBinding
      Enabling the ViewBinding
   Gradle sync
   Creating the scrollable list
   RecyclerView
      Single element layout
   CardView
   Adapter for RecyclerView
      Abstract methods
      Constructor for the adapter
      ViewBinding inside the adapter
      Passing the data to ViewHolder
      Setting the size of items
   ViewHolder
      The full Adapter class code
      Completing the RecyclerView
      Changing the layout
   Options menu
   The click functionality
   Conclusion
   Exercises
5. App 3—Movie Booking
   Introduction
   Structure
   Objectives
   What is fragment?
   Fragment lifecycle
   The basic activity
   NavHostFragment
   Android jetpack
   Creating a new project
   Setting up the fragments
      Rename existing fragment
      Create a new package
      Creating new fragments
      Update fragment labels
   Kotlin getter and backing properties
   Updating fragment default code
      Fix new fragments
      Create a user interface for each fragment
         fragment_intro.xml
         fragment_day_select.xml
         fragment_time_select.xml
         fragment_seat_select.xml
         fragment_payment.xml
         fragment_confirm.xml
         fragment_receipt.xml
   Navigation graph
   MVVM architecture in Android
   DataBinding
      Updating the build.gradle file
   ViewModel
      Shared ViewModel
      Creating the ViewModel
   LiveData
      Immutable versus mutable LiveData
      Updating the ViewModel
      ViewModel + DataBinding in Layout files
         fragment_intro.xml
         fragment_day_select.xml
         fragment_time_select.xml
         fragment_seat_select.xml
         fragment_payment.xml
         fragment_confirm.xml
         fragment_receipt.xml
   Lifecycle observer
      Completing the fragments
         IntroFragment.kt
         DaySelectFragment.kt
         TimeSelectFragment.kt
         SeatSelectFragment.kt
         PaymentFragment.kt
         ConfirmFragment.kt
         ReceiptFragment.kt
   Running the app
   Conclusion
   Exercises
6. App 4—Book Finder
   Introduction
   Structure
   Objectives
   Multithreading
   Coroutines
   Web services and networking
   The Google Books API
   Setting up the new project
   Retrofit service
   Moshi and data conversion
   Permission in Android
   Creating the Project UI
      Update strings.xml
      Update navigation graph
      Update activity_main.xml layout
      Change fragment_search.xml layout
      Change fragment_result.xml
      Edit the book_card_view.xml
   Integrating the code
      Creating the BookViewModel
      Editing the SearchFragment
      Editing the ResultFragment
      Handling the BookAdapter
   BindingAdapter
   Adding the data binding to layout
   Running the app
   Conclusion
   Exercises
7. App 5—Flash Cards (Part 1)
   Introduction
   Structure
   Objectives
   The concept of database
      Local databases
      Remote databases
   Table, columns and rows
      Tables
      Columns
      Rows
   Datatypes
   Primary key
   SQL and basic queries
      SELECT
      INSERT
      UPDATE
      DELETE
   Room library
   Creating the new project
   Adding room dependency
   Entity in room
   Data Access Object
      Creating the database
      Attaching the database with application
   Conclusion
   Exercises
8. App 5—Flash Cards (Part 2)
   Introduction
   Structure
   Objectives
   Fetching data using flow
   ViewModel and DAO
   ViewModelFactory and DAO
   Adding data
      The layout design
      Add the resource strings
      The fragment’s code
   Setting the home screen with ViewPager
      ViewPager2
      The layout design
      The fragment’s code
   Setting up the ListAdapter
   Adding more functionality
   View and delete item
      The layout
      Kotlin code
      Navigation graph implementation
   Editing item
      The layout
      Kotlin code
      Navigation graph implementation
   Running the app
   Conclusion
   Exercise
9. App 6—Inspire Me
   Introduction
   Structure
   Objectives
   Cloud services
   Setting up the project
      Fragments
      ViewModels
      Adapter
      Navigation graph
      Layouts
      Model
      Drawables
      BindingUtil.kt
      Menu
      Strings.xml
   App’s project structure
   Firebase integration
   Firebase console
   Firebase authentication
   Firebase Firestore
   Project UI and layout
      activity_auth.xml
      fragment_login.xml
      fragment_register.xml
      post_card.xml
      fragment_display.xml
      fragment_add.xml
   ViewModels
      CloudAuthViewModel
      FirebaseViewModel
   Navigation graph
   Fixing the menu
   Adapter
   Implementation of fragments
      LoginFragment
      RegisterFragment
      DisplayFragment
      AddFragment
   Uploading apps to GitHub
   Running the app
   Conclusion
   Exercises
Index