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Expert Android Programming

By : Prajyot Mainkar

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Expert Android Programming

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By: Prajyot Mainkar

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Overview of this book

Android O brings a number of important changes for the users as well as the developers. If you want to create smart android applications which are fast, lightweight and also highly efficient then this is the book that will solve all your problems. You will create a complex enterprise grade app in this book. You will get a quick refresher of the latest android SDK and how to configure your development environment. Then you will move onto creating app layouts, component and module building, creating smart and efficient UIs. The most important part of a modern day app is how real time they are. With this book, you will create a smooth back-end for your app, ensure dynamic and real time communication between different app layers. As we move on, you will learn to leverage the different Android APIs and create an efficient SQLite data layer for your apps. You will implement effective testing techniques to make your app reliable and robust and finally you will learn to deploy it efficiently. The multiple stages of android development will also be simplified by giving you an industry standard set of best practices.

Preface

Introduction

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

Understanding the Gradle System

Stepping into the Gradle world

Adding Gradle to your app

Adding a new Gradle library

Summary

Exploring Android Studio Developer Tools

APK Analyzer

Understanding basic battery drain

Batterystats and Battery Historian

Memory Monitor

Summary

Leap into the Android Support Library

The Android Support Library

Summary

Google Play Services

The architecture

Google Maps

Summary

Material Design

Wireframing and tools to gather feedback

Material UI for Android developers

Summary

SOLID Android Development and Its Design Principles

Single Responsibility Principle

Open-Closed Principle

Liskov Substitution Principle

Interface Segregation Principle

Dependency Inversion Principle

Summary

Understanding MVC, MVP, MVVM and Clean Arch Patterns

MVC (Model View Controller)

MVP (Model View Presenter)

MVVM

Clean Architecture Pattern

Summary

Decision Making

How to begin

Creational patterns

Structural patterns

Behavioral pattern

Summing up MVP and MVC

Refactoring your app

Summary

Performance Matters

Improving display performances

Effective consumption of battery in Zomato

Improving app with battery analyser

Summary

Building Restaurant finder

App sections

Summary

Backend Service

Realtime Database

Firebase Cloud Messaging

Remote configuration

Authentication

Storage

Summary

App Quality Service

Firebase Test Lab

Summary

Grow Up

Dynamic links

App indexing

Admob

Testing

Testing Mechanisms (Functionality , Performance , Security , and Compatibility)

Testing UI for Multiple Apps

Summary

Preparing for Google Play

Versioning Your App

Preconfiguring to automatically Sign Your APK

Summary

Understanding App Store Analytics for Optimization

Keep an eye on Google Play policies

Summary

Exploring Android Studio Developer Tools

According to Statista, one of the leading statistical analysis agencies, designing a smartphone is ultimately a game of trade-offs: screen size vs. portability; battery life vs. data speeds; appearance vs. sturdiness; to name just a few. To make these trade-offs, it's important to know what the consumer wants.

Now that we know how to use Gradle, in this chapter we will discuss some of the tools that provide help in building apps and also help in debugging and performance tooling. We will discuss three important tools:

APK Analyzer: the tool to analyze the Android Application Package (APK) file
Battery Historian: shows the details of how the battery is used in the phone
Memory Analyzer: understanding memory patterns while using the app