Programming Android with Kotlin: Achieving Structured Concurrency with Coroutines

✍ Scribed by Pierre-Olivier Laurence, Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez, G. Blake Meike, Mike Dunn

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 354
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Android development is so vast that mastering this mobile operating system can seem daunting--particularly now that Kotlin has become the official Android development language. This book helps Android developers make the transition from Java to Kotlin and shows them how Kotlin provides a true advantage for gaining control over asynchronous computations.

By focusing specifically on coroutines, a new asynchronous programming paradigm, this book describes how you can achieve structured concurrency with Kotlin. Authors Pierre-Oliver Laurence, Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez, and Mike Dunn provide implementations of the most common tasks in native Android development.

• The basics of the Kotlin language and the Android architecture
• Data transformations in Kotlin
• Android fundamentals in memory and threading
• Concurrency with coroutines
• Channels and flows
• Android profiling tools