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Android Studio Cookbook

By : Mike van Drongelen
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Android Studio Cookbook

By: Mike van Drongelen

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 (17 chapters)
Android Studio Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Code analysis


Code analysis tools, such as Android Lint, can help you detect potential bugs and how your app can be optimized for security, usability, and performance.

Android Lint comes with Android Studio, but there are also other tools available such as: Check Style, Project Mess Detector (PMD), and Find Bugs. In this recipe, we will only have a look at Android Lint.

Getting ready

  • Most ideally, you would have completed the first two recipes of this chapter, so we will now examine the results of the app. However, you can use Android Lint (or another tool) on any project to see where things can be improved.

Note

The support annotations of the first recipe influence the results being displayed. Yes, that is right, we cause these warnings.

How to do it...

There is nothing that we need to install in order to get an Android Lint report, as it is already in there with Android Studio. Just follow the next steps to make use of it:

  1. Open the project you have created in the previous recipes. Or, alternatively...