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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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Structural patterns

These patterns are structured to understand exactly what they are doing, and can be made use of in multiple places because of their organized patterns. They create objects in a familiar arrangement that perform typical tasks. In Android, the structural patterns are Adapter and Facade.

Adapter

The word adapter says it all: it adapts itself to be a bridge between the data source and the type of view this data has to be displayed in; basically, the adapter view.

The data here might be of any kind, but it needs to be displayed in the same view, for which an adapter plays an important role.

The following figure identifies how the adapter binds the data with the view:

The data could be in any form, such as List...