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Android Design Patterns and Best Practice

Android Design Patterns and Best Practice

By : Mew
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Android Design Patterns and Best Practice

Android Design Patterns and Best Practice

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By: 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.
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Chapter 4. Layout Patterns

In the previous chapters, we have looked at the most important patterns used for creating objects and at some of the most used material components. To bring these together, we need to consider the overall layouts an application might need. This allows us to plan our app in greater detail as well as introducing the interesting challenge of designing an app for different-sized screens and orientations. Android makes developing for a variety of screen sizes and shapes very simple and intuitive, and with a minimum of extra coding. We will then conclude by exploring and creating a strategy pattern.

In this chapter, you will learn how to:

  • Use relative and linear layouts
  • Apply gravity and weight
  • Scale weights with weightSum
  • Use the percent support library
  • Develop layouts for specific screen sizes
  • Create a strategy pattern

The Android platform provides a variety of layout classes. These range from the very simple frame layout to the quite complex layouts provided by...

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