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Learning Android Application Development

By : Raimon Ràfols Montane, Laurence Dawson
Book Image

Learning Android Application Development

By: Raimon Ràfols Montane, Laurence Dawson

Overview of this book

The mobile app market is huge. But where do you start? And how you can deliver something that takes Google Play by storm? This guide is the perfect route into Android app development – while it’s easy for new apps to sink without a trace, we’ll give you the best chance of success with practical and actionable guidance that will unlock your creativity and help you put the principles of Android development into practice. From the fundamentals and getting your project started to publishing your app to a huge market of potential customers, follow this guide to become a confident, creative and reliable mobile developer. Get to grips with new components in Android 7 such as RecyclerView, and find out how to take advantage of automated testing, and, of course, much, much more. What are you waiting for? There’s never been a better time – or a better way – to get into Android app development.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Android Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we learned how to add dynamic lists to our application. We also covered the performance issues that we might face if we do not do things in the right way, and we evolved our example from the good old ListView and ListActivity to the new and more efficient RecyclerView.

Additionally, we introduced a new LayoutManager, which is able to manage items with different sizes, and the ability to draw decorations before or after the RecyclerView child items are drawn.

For the time being, the source of data for the lists is quite static, but in upcoming chapters we will see how to make it more dynamic and have different data sources.