• Title: Jetpack Compose Essentials
• Author(s) Neil Smyth
• Publisher: Payload Media, Inc. (January 27, 2022); eBook (Answertopia, March 3, 2022)
• Paperback: 502 pages
• ebook: HTML
• Language: English
• ISBN-10/ASIN: 1951442377/B09RFZKNST
• ISBN-13: 978-1951442378
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Book Description

The goal of this book is to teach you the skills necessary to build Android applications using Jetpack Compose, Android Studio, and the Kotlin programming language.

Beginning with the basics, this book explains how to set up an Android Studio development environment.

The book also includes in-depth chapters introducing the Kotlin programming language including data types, operators, control flow, functions, lambdas, and object-oriented programming.

Along the way, the topics covered in the book are put into practice through detailed tutorials, the source code for which is also available for download.

• Neil Smyth is co-founder and CEO Payload Media, an internet and eBook publishing company based in the U.S. Prior to launching Payload Media, Neil held a number of positions in the IT industry including programming, web development, systems administration and sales and marketing and is the author of a number of technology related books. Click here to see all his "Essentials" technical books.

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