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.

Table of Contents

Section I: Getting Started With Jetpack Compose

Chapter 1: Developing UI in Android

Chapter 2: Learning Jetpack Compose Fundamentals

Chapter 3: Building Layout Groups in Compose

Chapter 4: Building Lists With Jetpack Compose

Section II: Composing User Interfaces

Chapter 5: Combining Composables

Chapter 6: Using Compose Modifiers

Chapter 7: Managing State in Compose

Chapter 8: Applying Material Design to Compose

Section III: Building Complex Apps With Jetpack Compose

Chapter 9: Using ConstraintSets in Composables

Chapter 10: Building Complex UI in Jetpack Compose

Chapter 11: Reacting to Compose Lifecycle

Chapter 12: Animating Properties Using Compose

Chapter 13: Adding View Compatibility

Section IV: UI Testing & Accessibility

Chapter 14: UI Tests in Jetpack Compose

Chapter 15: Accessibility in Jetpack Compose

Section V: Glances & Keeping Upto Date With Jetpack Compose

Chapter 16: Creating Widgets Using Jetpack Glance

Chapter 17: Keeping up to Date With Jetpack Compose Conclusion

Section VI: Appendices

Appendix A: ViewGroups / Widgets to Jetpack Compose Cheatsheet