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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

A Layout composer


In Chapter 6, Activating Patterns, we used a builder to construct a simple UI. The builder was a perfect choice for this task, as we were only concerned with including one type of view. We could have adapted this scheme (literally, with an adapter) to cater for other view types, but it would be far better to employ a pattern that does not care what type of component it is dealing with. Hopefully, the preceding example demonstrates the composite pattern's suitability to this kind of task.

In the following example, we will apply the same principle to an actual UI inflater that works with different types of view, composite groups of views and, most significantly, dynamic nested layouts.

For the purpose of this exercise, we will suppose that our app has a news page. This would largely be a promotional feature, but it has been demonstrated that consumers are more susceptible to advertising when it is dressed up as news. Many of the components, such as header and logo, will remain...