2 Minutes Guide: Top Libs and Tips for Android App Development 2023

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Nowadays everyone wants to make the best and most popular application. for that required continuous changes and updates in the app. here, the question comes to mind. How?

Let’s get the knowledge about a few essential libraries and tips that help to make your code robust, modularized, scalable and testable.

1. Develop apps with Kotlin — As per the official doc, Kotlin is a modern statically typed programming language used by over 60% of professional Android developers that helps boost productivity, developer satisfaction and code safety.
2. Jetpack compose — Compose provides the declarative UI framework. And it is Android’s recommended modern toolkit for building native UI.
3. Kotlin coroutines — Coroutines are our recommended solution for asynchronous programming on Android. why recommended, Lightweight, Fewer memory leaks, Built-in cancellation support and many more.
4. Room database — The Room persistence library provides an abstraction layer over SQLite.
5. DataStore —It is a data storage solution that allows you to store key-value pairs or typed objects. Can say a good alternative of SharedPreferences to store data asynchronously.
6. Work manager — It is the recommended solution for persistent work. Can schedule Immediate, Long-running & Deferrable tasks with selected constraints.
7. Coil — It is a modern easy-to-use, fast and lightweight coroutine image loader lib.
8. Hilt Dependency injection — Hilt is Jetpack’s recommended library for dependency injection in Android to reduce the boilerplate in your project.
9. Retrofit2.0 — A type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java. Use it for networking.
10. App Testing— Use Mockito & JUnit to write functional test cases to reduce run time fallbacks. And use Compose UI Test to test UIs to verify the correct behavior of your Compose code, improving the quality of your app by catching errors early in the development process.
11. ktLint — An anti-bikeshedding Kotlin linter with a built-in format.
12. Firebase Crashlytics — lightweight, real-time crash reporter that helps you track, prioritize and fix stability issues that erode your app quality.
13. Analytics — Google Analytics is an app measurement solution, that provides insight on app usage and user engagement.
14. Coding pattern and architecture — Must Follow SOLID principles and Clean architecture to make your code robust, scalable and testable.
15. App security best practices — By making your app more secure, you help preserve user trust and device integrity. Follow best practices that have a significant, positive impact on your app’s security.
16. CI-CD — A continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline is a series of steps that must be performed in order to deliver a new version of the app. CI/CD pipelines are a practice focused on improving product delivery throughout the development life cycle via automation.

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