Jetpack Compose by Tutorials (Second Edition): Building Beautiful UI With Jetpack Compose

Book Synopsis: Build Beautiful Apps With Jetpack Compose

Jetpack Compose is hyping up everyone in the Android UI toolkit world. This completely new and modern solution to building declarative user interfaces provides more opportunity than ever to create beautiful, reactive and animated apps.

However, because of its new status, Jetpack Compose is lacking one of the most important pieces of successful software: detailed documentation. That's why we've prepared a whole book's worth of documentation for you!

Jetpack Compose By Tutorials is here to help, by showing you exactly how Compose works, what its fundamental components are and how you can use them to build complex real-world apps!

Who this book is for

This book is for all Android developers who have experience with the legacy UI Toolkit through XML and View components, but who are looking for a fresh, reusable, clean and easy-to-use solution to reduce their boilerplate code while building stunning user interfaces.

Topics covered in Jetpack Compose by Tutorials

Fundamentals: Core Jetpack Compose elements and functions

Combining components: Mixing different layouts and building beautiful interfaces

State Management: State wrappers, LiveData observables and UI recomposition

UI Styling: Modifiers for size, shape, colors, background, padding and alignment

User Interaction: Different click, touch and scroll listeners and their handlers

Animations: State changes, value animations and complex transitions

UI Testing: Learn how to test your Jetpack Compose code

Accessibility: Learn how to support Accessibility using Jetpack Compose

One thing you can count on: After reading this book, you'll be prepared to tackle any design specification and build it in your Android apps using Jetpack Compose. You'll make your apps really stand out by adding different modifiers and Material Design components, as well as animations.