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Android Design Patterns and Best Practice

By : Kyle Mew
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Android Design Patterns and Best Practice

By: Kyle Mew

Overview of this book

Are you an Android developer with some experience under your belt? Are you wondering how the experts create efficient and good-looking apps? Then your wait will end with this book! We will teach you about different Android development patterns that will enable you to write clean code and make your app stand out from the crowd. The book starts by introducing the Android development environment and exploring the support libraries. You will gradually explore the different design and layout patterns and get to know the best practices of how to use them together. Then you’ll then develop an application that will help you grasp activities, services, and broadcasts and their roles in Android development. Moving on, you will add user-detecting classes and APIs such as gesture detection, touch screen listeners, and sensors to your app. You will also learn to adapt your app to run on tablets and other devices and platforms, including Android Wear, auto, and TV. Finally, you will see how to connect your app to social media and explore deployment patterns as well as the best publishing and monetizing practices. The book will start by introducing the Android development environment and exploring the support libraries. You will gradually explore the different Design and layout patterns and learn the best practices on how to use them together. You will then develop an application that will help you grasp Activities, Services and Broadcasts and their roles in Android development. Moving on, you will add user detecting classes and APIs such as at gesture detection, touch screen listeners and sensors to our app. You will also learn to adapt your app to run on tablets and other devices and platforms, including Android Wear, Auto, and TV. Finally, you will learn to connect your app to social media and explore deployment patterns and best publishing and monetizing practices.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Android Design Patterns and Best Practice
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Promoting and monetizing apps


Very few apps become successful without first being well promoted. There are countless ways to do this and you will, no doubt, be well ahead of the curve on how to promote your products. To help you reach a wider audience, Google provides some handy tools to assist with promotion.

After looking at promotion tools, we will explore two ways to make money from our app: in-app payments and advertising.

Promoting an app

There are two very simple methods, provided by Google, to help steer people towards our products on the Play store: links from both websites and our apps, and the Google Play Badge, which provides official branding to our links.

We can add links to both individual apps and our publisher page, where all our apps can be browsed, and we can include these links in our apps as well as our websites:

  • To include a link to a specific app's page in the Play store, use the full package name, as found in the Manifest, in the following format:

        http://play.google...