Kotlin Apprentice (Third Edition)


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Learn how to program with Kotlin!Kotlin is the exciting modern language from JetBrains, creators of IntelliJ IDEA, the basis of many popular IDEs such as Android Studio and PyCharm. Since the adoption of Kotlin by Google as an official language for Android, the momentum behind Kotlin has gone off the charts.Kotlin supports many platforms, including Android, the web, the back-end, and even iOS. By reading this book, you'll be ready to use Kotlin on any and all of these platforms.Who This Book Is ForThis book is for complete beginners to Kotlin. No prior programming experience is necessary!Topics Covered in Kotlin ApprenticeKotlin Development Environment: See how to setup a development environment for Kotlin using IntelliJ IDEA.Numbers and Strings: These are the basic kinds of data in any app-learn how to use them in Kotlin.Making Decisions: Your code doesn't always run straight through-learn how to use conditions and loops to control program flow.Functions and Lambdas: Group your code together into reusable chunks to run and pass around.Collection Types: Discover the many ways Kotlin offers to store and organize data into collections.Building Your Own Types: Learn how to model elements in your app using classes, objects, interfaces, and enumerations.Functional Programming: Learn how to use Kotlin in a functional style and how this can make your code clearer and more efficient.Coroutines: Asynchronous programming can be a complex topic on any platform, but Kotlin gives you a clear and consise approach with coroutines.Kotlin Platforms and Scripting: Learn about how Kotlin can be used on multiple platforms and see its use as a scripting language.Kotlin/Native and Multiplatform: See how to use Kotlin/Native to bring your apps to more than one platform.One thing you can count on: after reading this book, you'll be prepared to take advantage of Kotlin wherever you choose to use it!




Android Apprentice (Fourth Edition)


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Learn Android programming with Kotlin! Learning Android programming can be challenging. Sure, there is plenty of documentation, but the tools and libraries available today for Android are easily overwhelming for newcomers to Android and Kotlin. Android Apprentice takes a different approach. From building a simple first app, all the way to a fully-featured podcast player app, this book walks you step-by-step, building on basic concepts to advanced techniques so you can build amazing apps worthy of the Google Play Store! Who This Book Is For This book is for anyone interested in writing mobile apps for Android. Though no previous mobile experience is necessary, this book is also a great resource for iPhone developers transitioning from iOS. Topics Covered in Android Apprentice Getting Started: Learn how to set up Android Studio and the Android Emulator. Layouts: Create layouts that can be used for both Activities and Fragments Debugging: No one's perfect! Learn how to dig down and troubleshoot bugs in your apps. Communication: Design separate Activites and communicate and send data between them using Intents. Scrolling Layouts: Learn how to use Recycler Views to make efficient, reusable views that scroll fluidly at a touch. Google Places: Integrate location APIs to bring the magic of maps into your Android apps. Networking: Learn how to access resouces on the internet and handle networked responses. Material Design: Make sure your apps conform to modern best practices by using Google's standards of Material Design AndroidX: Learn how to use the AndroidX libraries to support older versions of Android. And much, much more! One thing you can count on: after reading this book, you'll be prepared to write feature-rich apps from scratch and go all the way to submiting them to the Google Play Store! About the Tutorial Team The Tutorial Team is a group of app developers and authors who write tutorials at the popular website raywenderlich.com. We take pride in making sure each tutorial we write holds to the highest standards of quality. We want our tutorials to be well written, easy to follow, and fun. If you've enjoyed the tutorials we've written in the past, you're in for a treat. The tutorials we've written for this book are some of our best yet - and this book contains detailed technical knowledge you simply won't be able to find anywhere else.




Kotlin Apprentice (Second Edition)


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Android Apprentice


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Learn Android programming with Kotlin! Learning Android programming can be challenging. Sure, there is plenty of documentation, but the tools and libraries available today for Android are easily overwhelming for newcomers to Android and Kotlin. Android Apprentice takes a different approach. From building a simple first app, all the way to a fully-featured podcast player app, this book walks you step-by-step, building on basic concepts to advanced techniques so you can build amazing apps worthy of the Google Play Store! Who This Book Is For This book is for anyone interested in writing mobile apps for Android. Though no previous mobile experience is necessary, this book is also a great resource for iPhone developers transitioning from iOS. Topics Covered in Android Apprentice Getting Started: Learn how to set up Android Studio and the Android Emulator. Layouts: Create layouts that can be used for both Activities and Fragments Debugging: No one's perfect! Learn how to dig down and troubleshoot bugs in your apps. Communication: Design separate Activites and communicate and send data between them using Intents. Scrolling Layouts: Learn how to use Recycler Views to make efficient, reusable views that scroll fluidly at a touch. Google Places: Integrate location APIs to bring the magic of maps into your Android apps. Networking: Learn how to access resouces on the internet and handle networked responses. Material Design: Make sure your apps conform to modern best practices by using Google's standards of Material Design And much, much more! One thing you can count on: after reading this book, you'll be prepared to write feature-rich apps from scratch and go all the way to submiting them to the Google Play Store!




Dart Apprentice (First Edition)


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Make Dart Your Programming Language of Choice There are many programming languages you can start learning today. But not many are as modern, easy to learn, object-oriented and scalable as Dart. Plus, combined with Flutter, Dart allows you to build native iOS, Android, web and desktop applications with a single code base. Dart Apprentice will teach you all the basic concepts you need to master this language. Follow along with the clearly and thoroughly explained concepts and you'll be building Dart applications in a breeze. Who This Book Is For Dart Apprentice is aimed at anyone interested in learning this new and modern programming language. If you're a beginner and want to start programming, this is great place to start. If you're an experienced programmer interested in learning Dart, here you'll find all the concepts you need to know. In either case, following along with this book, you'll be comfortable writing your own Dart programs in less time than you think. Topics covered in Dart Apprentice Expressions, Variables and Constants: The building blocks of the language Types and Operations: Static vs. dynamic typing, inference and strings Control Flow: Booleans, enums, switches, if statements and loops Functions: Named and anonymous functions, parameters and arrow syntax Classes: Objects, constructors, methods and properties Nullability: Null and how to handle it Collections: Lists, sets and maps Advanced classes: Inheritance, abstract classes, interfaces and mixins Asynchronous Programming: Concurrency, futures, streams and isolates One thing you can count on: after reading this book, you'll be prepared to build your own applications using Dart. About the Tutorial Team The Tutorial Team is a group of app developers and authors who write tutorials at the popular website raywenderlich.com. We take pride in making sure each tutorial we write holds to the highest standards of quality. We want our tutorials to be well written, easy to follow, and fun. If you've enjoyed the tutorials we've written in the past, you're in for a treat. The chapters we've written for this book are some of our best yet - and this book contains detailed technical knowledge explained in a way you simply won't be able to find anywhere else.




Atomic Kotlin


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For both beginning and experienced programmers! From the author of the multi-award-winning Thinking in C++ and Thinking in Java together with a member of the Kotlin language team comes a book that breaks the concepts into small, easy-to-digest "atoms," along with exercises supported by hints and solutions directly inside IntelliJ IDEA! No programming background necessary. Summaries for experienced programmers. Easy steps via very small chapters ("atoms"). Free accompanying exercises/solutions within IntelliJ Idea. Gives you a strong Kotlin foundation. Kotlin is cleaner, more consistent and far more powerful than Java. Increase programming productivity with Kotlin's clear, concise syntax. Produce safer, more reliable programs. Kotlin easily interacts with Java. Effortlessly migrate by adding pieces of Kotlin to an existing Java project. Support for Windows, Mac and Linux. Free version of Intellij IDEA includes extensive Kotlin support. Book resources, live seminars, workshops and consulting available at AtomicKotlin.com.




Android Programming


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Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide is an introductory Android book for programmers with Java experience. Based on Big Nerd Ranch's popular Android Bootcamp course, this guide will lead you through the wilderness using hands-on example apps combined with clear explanations of key concepts and APIs. This book focuses on practical techniques for developing apps compatible with Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) and up, including coverage of Lollipop and material design. Write and run code every step of the way, creating apps that integrate with other Android apps, download and display pictures from the web, play sounds, and more. Each chapter and app has been designed and tested to provide the knowledge and experience you need to get started in Android development. Big Nerd Ranch specializes in developing and designing innovative applications for clients around the world. Our experts teach others through our books, bootcamps, and onsite training. Whether it's Android, iOS, Ruby and Ruby on Rails, Cocoa, Mac OS X, JavaScript, HTML5 or UX/UI, we've got you covered. The Android team is constantly improving and updating Android Studio and other tools. As a result, some of the instructions we provide in the book are no longer correct. You can find an addendum addressing breaking changes at: https://github.com/bignerdranch/AndroidCourseResources/raw/master/2ndEdition/Errata/2eAddendum.pdf.




Flutter Apprentice (Third Edition)


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Build for iOS & Android With Flutter!Flutter is an exciting development toolkit that lets you build apps for iOS, Android and even web and desktop, all from a single codebase.It uses a declarative approach to UI development. You can "hot reload" code while developing, and apps will perform at native speed thanks to its custom rendering engine.With Flutter and Flutter Apprentice, you can achieve the dream of building fast applications, faster.Who This Book Is ForThis book is for developers who are new to Flutter, and also developers that already have some experience with building apps for the iOS and Android platforms, or web apps.Topics Covered in Flutter ApprenticeWidgets: Use Flutter widgets to build modern mobile user interfaces.Navigation: Navigate between multiple screens within a Flutter app, including using deep links.Networking and Persistence: Fetch data from the network, parse the JSON response and cache data locally in a SQLite database.State Management: Explore the all-important idea of state management in Flutter and learn about various state management techniques and tools.Streams: Learn about Dart streams and how to use them in Flutter apps.Deployment: Learn to prepare and deploy your app to mobile app stores.Firebase: Learn how to leverage Firebase Cloud Firestore to store data remotely.One thing you can count on: After reading this book, you'll be prepared to create and deploy full-featured mobile apps to both the iOS App Store and the Google Play Store, without having to write two separate apps.







Git Apprentice (Second Edition)


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Learn Git via Tutorials!Chances are, if you're involved with software development, you've heard of and have used Git at some point in your life. Version control systems are critical for any successful collaborative software project. Git is simple to start using while still accommodating the most complex tasks with version control. However, even seasoned Git users hit roadblocks on how to handle everyday situations.Git Apprentice is here to help! This book is the easiest and fastest way to get hands-on experience using Git to handle version control in your projects.Who This Book Is ForThis book is for anyone who wants to leverage version control's power with Git in their software development process. It starts with a gentle introduction, then moves on to more complex topics including branching, merging and stashing changes.Topics Covered in Git ApprenticeCrash course in Git: Covers the Git basics that every software artisan should know. Understand how to set up Git, committing, ignoring files and more.Branching: The real power in Git comes from its branching and merging model, which allows you to work on multiple things simultaneously.Syncing with a Remote: You've created code, now you'll learn how to share it with others.Merging: The whole point of Git is collaboration. Merging, or taking in, changes from others is a fundamental concept to put into practice.One thing you can count on: After reading this book, you'll be well-prepared to use Git in your software development project!