Kotlin Development: Complete Guide

Kotlin Development: Complete Guide Create 45 Android Applications Including Jetpack Compose
By Henry Codwell

Turn your passion for Android development into real-world, production-grade apps—with 45 fully functional projects, hands-on guidance, and a future-focused approach using Jetpack Compose and modern Kotlin best practices.

Whether you're a beginner eager to break into mobile development or an experienced coder seeking to modernize your Android skills, this book is your comprehensive, practical, and career-boosting roadmap. From your first “Hello World” app to full-stack mobile platforms, you’ll learn by doing—writing real apps, solving real problems, and building a portfolio that sets you apart.

What You’ll Learn Inside:

Master modern Kotlin for Android, with clear explanations of syntax, object-oriented and functional paradigms, coroutines, and null safety

Build 45 Android apps, from basic utilities like calculators and to-do lists to complex systems like e-commerce, social networks, and chat platforms

Explore Jetpack Compose, Google's modern declarative UI toolkit, and seamlessly integrate it with legacy XML code

Harness architecture components, Room databases, Retrofit networking, Hilt for dependency injection, Firebase for backends, and more

Create monetizable, production-ready apps with features like in-app purchases, ads, and Play Store deployment

Push the boundaries with cross-platform Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM), advanced UI/UX, and AI-enhanced features