Название: Exploring Android 2.1
Автор: Mark L. Murphy
Издательство: CommonsWare, LLC
Год: 2021
Страниц: 613
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), mobi, epub
Размер: 20.5 MB

Обычно книги, такие как «Руководство занятого программиста по разработке Android», описывают темы программирования, в которых только теоретически показано как использовать различные API, инструменты и т.д. Данная же книга сильно отличается от них. Вместе с ней вы сможете создать приложение с самого начала обучения. Тогда как традиционные руководства по программированию ориентированы на широту и глубину, эта книга ориентирована на практическое руководство, которое поможет вам выполнить шаги по написанию приложения.

Many books — such as The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development, — present programming topics, showing you how to use different APIs, tools, and so on. This book is different. This book has you build an app from the beginning. Whereas traditional programming guides are focused on breadth and depth, this book is focused on "hands-on", guiding you through the steps to build the app. It provides a bit of details on the underlying concepts, but it relies on other resources — such as The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development — for the full explanation of those details. Instead, this book provides step-by-step instructions for building the app.

If you are the sort of person who "learns by doing", then this book is for you! At the present time, this book is in a "beta" state, representing the first set of tutorials. More tutorials will come in the future to add more features and explore more aspects of Android app development. Updates via the Warescription will be fairly rapid until the book reaches version 1.0, at which time it will be updated a couple of times per year.

What’s New in Version 2.1?
The book is now up to date for Android Studio 4.2.1 and newer versions of all the dependencies.
The biggest change, in terms of the actual content, is switching to use ActivityResultContracts as alternatives to things like ACTION_CREATE_DOCUMENT for generating a report. The new version of Navigation required some minor tweaks in how we handle adding a new to-do item. Upgrades to the AppCompat and Core dependencies triggered a collision in some license files, requiring the addition of a packagingOptions directive to app/build.gradle. And the newer Koin requires some changes to imports and the addition of some annotations.