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Android Design Patterns and Best Practice

By : Kyle Mew
Book Image

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

Configuring the floating action button


So far, our layout provides only one action, the add action button on each list item. This will be used to include that filling in the user's eventual sandwich. It is always a good idea to ensure that the user is never more than one click away from spending their money, and so we will add a checkout function to the activity.

The first thing we will need is an icon. Probably the best source for icons is the asset studio we used earlier in the book. This is such a great way to include icons in our projects, mainly because it automatically generates versions for all available screen densities. However, the number of icons is limited and there is no checkout basket. We have two choices here: we can find an icon online or we can design our own.

There are a large number of material-compliant icons available online and Google have their own, which can be found at:

Many developers prefer to design their own graphics and there will always...