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Android Studio Cookbook

Android Studio Cookbook

By : van Drongelen
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Android Studio Cookbook

Android Studio Cookbook

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By: van Drongelen
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Overview of this book

This book starts with an introduction of Android Studio and why you should use this IDE rather than Eclipse. Moving ahead, it teaches you to build a simple app that requires no backend setup but uses Google Cloud or Parse instead. After that, you will learn how to create an Android app that can send and receive text and images using Google Cloud or Parse as a backend. It explains the concepts of Material design and how to apply them to an Android app. Also, it shows you how to build an app that runs on an Android wear device. Later, it explains how to build an app that takes advantage of the latest Android SDK while still supporting older Android versions. It also demonstrates how the performance of an app can be improved and how memory management tools that come with the Android Studio IDE can help you achieve this. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop high quality apps with a minimum amount of effort using the Android Studio IDE.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Sections
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Conventions
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1. Welcome to Android Studio
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1. Welcome to Android Studio
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Introduction
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Creating your first app called Hello Android Studio
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The use of Gradle build scripts
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Testing your app with an emulator called Genymotion
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Refactoring your code
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2. Applications with a Cloud-based Backend
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2. Applications with a Cloud-based Backend
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Introduction
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Setting up Parse
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Consuming data from the cloud
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Submitting data to the cloud
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3. Material Design
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3. Material Design
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Introduction
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Reycler views and card views
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Ripples and elevations
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Great transitions
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4. Android Wear
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4. Android Wear
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Wearables
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Fullscreen wearable app
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Watch faces
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Notifications
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5. Size Does Matter
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5. Size Does Matter
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Size and context
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Phone, phablet, and tablet
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Media playback
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TV and media centre
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6. Capture and Share
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6. Capture and Share
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Introduction
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Capturing images the easy way
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Image capturing using the Camera2 API
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Image sharing
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Orientation issues
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7. Content Providers and Observers
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7. Content Providers and Observers
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Introduction
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Content providers
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Consuming and updating data using a content provider – daily thoughts
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Change projections to display KPIs in your app
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Communicate with other apps using content providers
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8. Improving Quality
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8. Improving Quality
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Introduction
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Patterns and support annotations
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Unit testing using Robolectric
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Code analysis
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9. Improving Performance
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9. Improving Performance
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Introduction
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Memory profilers and performance tools
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Here comes the bad app – performance improvements
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Overdraw issues
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10. Beta Testing Your Apps
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10. Beta Testing Your Apps
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Introduction
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Build variants
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Runtime permissions
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Play Store beta distribution
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Index
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Index

Introduction

There are some common pitfalls to avoid and some patterns that you may want to apply in order to improve the quality of your app. You have seen some of them in the previous chapters already. Also, there are some interesting tools that can be used to test and analyze your code.

In the following road map, you will notice that there are different stages that you need to complete before you can go live with your app:

The structure of your code, robustness, maintainability, and how well it complies with the functional requirements are key elements.

Functional quality is measured through software testing, for which we need to distribute our app to our beta testers. We will discuss this in Chapter 10, Beta Testing Your Apps.

Structural quality is evaluated by running unit tests and code inspections manually (peer review) or using tools such as Android Lint, which you will learn more about in the final recipe within this chapter. Now the question is how well does the architecture of the...

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