Programming Android with Kotlin:Achieving Structured Concurrency with Coroutines

by: Pierre-Olivier Laurence(Author),Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez(Author),G Blake Meike(Author),Mike Dunn(Author)

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Publication Date: 31 Dec. 2021

Language: English

Print Length: 325 pages

ISBN-10: 1492063002

ISBN-13: 9781492063001

Book Description

Developing applications for the Android mobile operating system can seem daunting, particularly if it requires leaing a new programming language:Kotlin, now Android's official development language. With this practical book, Android developers will lea how to make the transition from Java to Kotlin, including how Kotlin provides a true advantage for gaining control over asynchronous computations. Authors Pierre-Olivier Laurence, Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez, G. Blake Meike, and Mike Dunn explore implementations of the most common tasks in native Android development, and show you how Kotlin can help you solve concurrency problems. With a focus on structured concurrency, a new asynchronous programming paradigm, this book will guide you through one of Kotlin's most powerful constructs, coroutines. Lea about Kotlin essentials and the Kotlin Collections Framework Explore Android fundamentals:the operating system and the application container and its components Lea about thread safety and how to handle concurrency Write sequential, asynchronous work at a low cost Examine structured concurrency with coroutines, and lea how channels make coroutines communicate Lea how to use flows for asynchronous data processing Understand performance considerations using Android profiling tools Use performance optimizations to trim resource consumption