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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

Performance Matters

An app is dear to an end user, especially when it performs better than its expectations. A lot of apps today are resource eaters. Even though they might be the best at the user interface and experience, if they end up eating too many of resources of the phone, the app might just face an uninstalled state within no time. The battery is one such dear factor to the user and still remains a point of consideration while choosing a smartphone.

In this section, we will discuss several performance avenues in an app that we must cater to to ensure that we are building a performance-centric app which is resource friendly. We will list some of the tools we can use to improve the app performance too.