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Modern Android 13 Development Cookbook

By : Madona S. Wambua
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Book Image

Modern Android 13 Development Cookbook

5 (1)
By: Madona S. Wambua

Overview of this book

Android is a powerful operating system widely used in various devices, phones, TVs, wearables, automobiles, and more. This Android cookbook will teach you how to leverage the latest Android development technologies for creating incredible applications while making effective use of popular Jetpack libraries. You’ll also learn which critical principles to consider when developing Android apps. The book begins with recipes to get you started with the declarative UI framework, Jetpack Compose, and help you with handling UI states, Navigation, Hilt, Room, Wear OS, and more as you learn what's new in modern Android development. Subsequent chapters will focus on developing apps for large screens, leveraging Jetpack’s WorkManager, managing graphic user interface alerts, and tips and tricks within Android studio. Throughout the book, you'll also see testing being implemented for enhancing Android development, and gain insights into harnessing the integrated development environment of Android studio. Finally, you’ll discover best practices for robust modern app development. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build an Android application using the Kotlin programming language and the newest modern Android development technologies, resulting in highly efficient applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

The importance of profiling your Android applications

In Android, profiling is the process of analyzing an application’s performance to identify its strengths and weaknesses. Profiling your Android applications is crucial for the following reasons:

  • It helps you identify performance bottlenecks such as slow code, memory leaks, and excessive CPU usage. This knowledge can help you optimize your code and make your application run more efficiently.
  • It improves the user experience. A poorly performing application can lead to user frustration and negative reviews. By profiling your application and optimizing its performance, you can provide a better user experience, leading to increased user engagement and positive reviews.
  • It helps save time and money. It is much easier and less expensive to fix performance issues early on than to try to fix them later when they have become more complex.

Hence, in this recipe, we will explore why profiling your Android applications...