Developing applications for the Android mobile operating system can seem daunting, particularly if it requires learning a new programming language: Kotlin, now Android's official development language. With this practical book, Android developers will learn how to make the transition from Java to Kotlin, including how Kotlin provides a true advantage for gaining control over asynchronous computations.\n\nAuthors Pierre-Olivier Laurence, Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez, G. Blake Meike, and Mike Dunn explore implementations of the most common tasks in native Android development, and show you how Kotlin can help you solve concurrency problems. With a focus on structured concurrency, a new asynchronous programming paradigm, this book will guide you through one of Kotlin's most powerful constructs, coroutines.\n\nLearn about Kotlin essentials and the Kotlin Collections Framework\nExplore Android fundamentals: the operating system and the application container and its components\nLearn about thread safety and how to handle concurrency\nWrite sequential, asynchronous work at a low cost\nExamine structured concurrency with coroutines, and learn how channels make coroutines communicate\nLearn how to use flows for asynchronous data processing\nUnderstand performance considerations using Android profiling tools\nUse performance optimizations to trim resource consumption
