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Android Programming for Beginners. Learn Android, Kotlin & Jetpack from scratch and Turbocharge progress with AI - Fourth Edition

Android Programming for Beginners. Learn Android, Kotlin & Jetpack from scratch and Turbocharge progress with AI - Fourth Edition

John Horton

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Modern Android development has evolved rapidly, with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose becoming the standard tools for building powerful mobile applications. Android Programming for Beginners provides a practical introduction for readers with little or no coding experience. Rather than overwhelming you with theory, the book teaches concepts gradually through hands-on experimentation and small, focused apps that reinforce core programming fundamentals.


You will begin by learning Kotlin essentials including variables, loops, functions, lambdas, collections, and object-oriented programming before moving into Android Studio and Jetpack Compose. As your skills grow, you will create interactive projects ranging from UI layouts and games to multimedia and database-driven applications. Along the way, you will explore Android development techniques such as state management, navigation, Material Design, Room databases, Canvas drawing, and responsive layouts.

To help future-proof your workflow, each chapter also includes optional AI-assisted programming exercises that show how modern coding tools can support experimentation, accelerate development, and deepen understanding. By the end of the book, you will have built a portfolio of Android apps and gained the confidence to continue toward advanced mobile development projects independently.
  • 1. Installing Android Studio & Building an App
  • 2. Building More Apps: Comments, Logging, Lifecycle & Interactivity
  • 3. Variables, Types, & Operators
  • 4. Controlling the Flow of Your Program with if and else
  • 5. Ranges & When
  • 6. Iteration
  • 7. Functions
  • 8. Jetpack, Composable Functions & Revisiting Hello World
  • 9. The @Preview Annotation and Remember Keyword
  • 10. Handling Data with a List & Inputting Data with a TextField
  • 11. Handling Data with Set
  • 12. Handling Data with Map
  • 13. Lambdas
  • 14. Kotlin, Java & Nullable
  • 15. Scope Functions & Advanced Collections
  • 16. Advanced layouts: FAB, Box, Card & Chip
  • 17. Regular Expressions & The Calculator app
  • 18. An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
  • 19. Class Functions, Constructors & Visibility Modifiers
  • 20. Inheritance, Polymorphism & Abstract Classes
  • 21. App Navigation, Data classes, & Starting the Multi-Screen App
  • 22. Interfaces, Companion objects, Databases, Git & Finishing the Multi-Screen App
  • 23. Drawing Graphics with Canvas
  • 24. Enums, Random Numbers & Starting the Space Shooter Game
  • 25. Threads & Finishing the Space Shooter Game
  • 26. Vibe Coding for Beginners
  • 27. Coding & Learning Jetpack with AI
  • 28. Coding & Learning Kotlin with AI
  • Title:Android Programming for Beginners. Learn Android, Kotlin & Jetpack from scratch and Turbocharge progress with AI - Fourth Edition
  • Author:John Horton
  • Original title:Android Programming for Beginners. Learn Android, Kotlin & Jetpack from scratch and Turbocharge progress with AI - Fourth Edition
  • ISBN:9781806698424, 9781806698424
  • Date of issue:2026-07-24
  • Format:Ebook - EPUB
  • Item ID: e_57nc
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing
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