Kotlin and Android Development featuring Jetpack. Build Better, Safer Android Apps

 With Kotlin and Jetpack, Android development is now smoother and more enjoyable than ever before. In this book, we're going to dive right into Android development by writing two complete Android apps.

With the first app, Penny Drop, you will create a full game complete with random die rolls, customizable rules, and AI opponents. You'll build lightweight Fragment views with data binding, quickly and safely update data with ViewModel classes, and handle all app navigation in a single location. You'll be guided to use Kotlin with Android-specific Kotlin extensions to efficiently write null-safe code without all the normal boilerplate required for pre-Jetpack + Kotlin apps. You'll see how to persist and retrieve data as full objects with the Room library, then display that data with ViewModels and list records in a RecyclerView.

Next, you'll create the official app for the Android Baseball League.