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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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How to begin

It is important to follow a proper code pattern to make your code structured, more efficient, non-redundant, reusable, and less time-consuming when maintaining it. It is obvious that you may revisit a code after a long time, for one reason or another.

In such a case, you should be happy that the code you have written is structured and easily reusable for yourself. You should not have to spend time finding out all the dependencies of the code that you are looking at.

To follow a proper structure and pattern, these are the strategies that you may need to use while building your app structure:

  • Creational patterns
  • Builder
  • Dependency injection
  • Singleton

Structural patterns:

  • Adapter
  • Facade

Behavioral patterns:

  • Command
  • Observer
  • Model View Controller
  • Model View View-Model