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About the author

Ashok Kumar S has been working in the mobile development domain for about eight years. He is a Google-certified engineer, a speaker at global scale conferences, and he also runs a YouTube channel called AndroidABCD for Android developers. He is an early Firebase adopter before Google acquires Firebase.

He is a computer science and engineering graduate who is passionate about innovation in technology. He contributes to open source heavily to improve his e-karma.
He has also written a book on Wear OS programming using a project-based approach, titled Android Wear Projects.

I would like to express my deepest appreciation and special gratitude to all those from the Packt Editorial team who helped me complete this book, especially Francis Savio Carneiro, Sachin Sunilkumar, and Roshan Ravi Kumar.

I'd also like to thank T. Subhash Chandra and Mohan B.A. for all the motivation. Finally, my deepest thanks to my mother Lalitha Srinivas, and my friends and family who helped manifest the book.