Android UI Development with Jetpack Compose: Bring declarative and native UIs to life quickly and easily on Android using Jetpack Compose

Android UI Development with Jetpack Compose: Bring declarative and native UIs to life quickly and easily on Android using Jetpack Compose
Author: Thomas Kunneth
Publisher: Packt Publishing (21 Feb. 2022)
Language: English
Paperback: 248 pages
ISBN-10: 1801812160
ISBN-13: 9781801812160
Book Description
Get started with creating intuitive native user interfaces on Android platforms
Key Features
Understand the difference between the imperative (Android View) and declarative (Jetpack Compose) approach
Learn about the structure of a Compose app, built-in Compose UI elements, and core concepts such as state hoisting and composition over inheritance
Write, test, and debug composable functions
Jetpack Compose is Android’s new framework for building fast, beautiful, and reliable native user interfaces. It simplifies and significantly accelerates UI development on Android using the declarative approach. This book will help developers to get hands-on with Jetpack Compose and adopt a modern way of building Android applications. The book is not an introduction to Android development, but it will build on your knowledge of how Android apps are developed.
Complete with hands-on tutorials and projects, this easy-to-follow guide will get you up to speed with the fundamentals of Jetpack Compose such as state hoisting, unidirectional data flow, and composition over inheritance and help you build your own Android apps using Compose. You’ll also cover concepts such as testing, animation, and interoperability with the existing Android UI toolkit.
Author: the end of the book, you’ll be able to write your own Android apps using Jetpack Compose.
What you will learn
Gain a solid understanding of the core concepts of Jetpack Compose
Develop beautiful, neat, and immersive UI elements that are user friendly, reliable, and performant
Build a complete app using Jetpack Compose
Add Jetpack Compose to your existing Android applications
Test and debug apps that use Jetpack Compose
Find out how Jetpack Compose can be used on other platforms