Summary and Next Steps
Kotlin and Android Development featuring Jetpack — by Michael Fazio (76 / 125)
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We can now get around our app! The nav drawer will give us a smooth way to hit all the pieces of the app we’ll be building out in the next few chapters.
Plus, we have quick routes to get directly to a destination in our app with actions. Using actions with Safe Args make the navigation experience great, as we’re working with actual objects rather than only String values that require some kind of conversion and are prone to mistakes.
Finally, with deep links and Android App Links, we can give users direct access to parts of our app that wouldn’t be immediately accessible otherwise. We’ll expand on these in later chapters for sure.
Next up is one of the most valuable chapters in the book. We’re going to reach outside our app to pull in data from external APIs and use them to display info in the app. We’ll update the Standings page we added here to use that data, as well as add a new Scoreboard screen to display the past, present, and future games in the Android Baseball League. Room + Retrofit + Coroutines will make this happen, and it’s going to be a blast.
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