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Expert Android Programming

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Expert Android Programming

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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Building Restaurant finder

Wireframing and tools to gather feedback

Wireframing is a technique to plan out the high-level screen hierarchy for your application and display the forms that would be present in your app by providing some mode of navigation, to allow users to effectively traverse your app flow. Some apps have wireframes expressed in a tree structure, a graph, or a flowchart.

The methods of wireframing could vary based on the type and magnitude of the app, but the standard patterns of wireframing remain the same. Also, there are varieties of tools that could be used across different types of apps and different kinds of information that represent the types of things users interact with in your app. Software engineers and data architects often use entity-relationship diagrams (ERDs) to describe an application's information model. We will understand and learn the various techniques of wireframing...