The First Line of Code is a must-have for developers who want to learn Android and Kotlin, and the best-seller in China. Knowledge between Android and Kotlin is interspersed in a way that readers are easy to understand and get start:

· Android part covers all the important aspects of the Android platform, such as activity, service, content provider, broadcast receiver, fragment, basic UI, data storage, network, Jetpack and other application-level knowledge.

· Kotlin part covers various aspects of Kotlin, such as standard grammar, common skills, higher-order functions, generics, coroutines, DSL and other language-level knowledge.

In addition, The First Line of Code is a very practicing book, illustrating concepts with a complete weather forecast program. You can use and practice all the knowledge comprehensively after learning and see the actual result for what you have learned through the book.

All contents of the book are quite easy to understand. It might be a good choice for both beginners and experienced developers. Also suitable for college students, college teachers, etc.

Table of Contents

1 Your First Line of Android Code

2 Explore New Language: A Quick Introduction to Kotlin

3 Start with the Visible: Explore Activity

4 Everything About UI Development

5 Support Phones and Tablets with Fragment

6 Broadcasts in Details

7 Data Persistence

8 Share Data Between Apps with ContentProvider

9 Enrich Your App with Multimedia

10 Work on the Background Service

11 Exploring New World with Network Technologies

12 Best UI Experience: Material Design in Action

13 High-Quality Developing Components: Exploring Jetpack

14 Keep Stepping Up: More Skills You Need to Know

15 Real Project Practice: Creating a Weather App

About the Author

Lin Guo An Android developer working in Microsoft. The Second Android GDE (Google Developer Expert) in China. Engaged in Android development since 2010. With well developing experience and wrote several popular open-source libraries on GitHub.

He maintains a technical blog on CSDN (one of Chinese largest computer technical forum) since 2013 and posted over 100 articles for sharing developing skills. Currently the blog has more than 10 million visits.

First Line of Android (Chinese Edition) is written by him and has been well received by readers since published. The first two editions of this book have already sold more than 250,000 copies, which is the best-seller in books of Android in China.