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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

Translating string resources


Android Studio provides a translation editor to simplify the process of providing alternative resources. In exactly the same way that we create designated folders for different screen sizes, we create alternative values directories for different languages. The editor manages this for us and we do not really need to know much about it but it is useful to know that, if we wished to translate our app into Italian, say, then the editor would create a folder named values-it and place the alternative strings.xml file within it:

To access the translations editor, simply right-click on the extant strings.xml file in the project explorer and select it.

Although the RecyclerView is a fantastic tool for managing and binding data in an efficient manner, it does require quite a bit of setting up. Apart from the view and the data, there are two other elements required to bind the data to our activity, the LayoutManager and the data adapter.

Adapters and layout managers

RecyclerViews...