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Clean Android Architecture

By : Alexandru Dumbravan
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Clean Android Architecture

By: Alexandru Dumbravan

Overview of this book

As an application’s code base increases, it becomes harder for developers to maintain existing features and introduce new ones. In this clean architecture book, you'll learn to identify when and how this problem emerges and how to structure your code to overcome it. The book starts by explaining clean architecture principles and Android architecture components and then explores the tools, frameworks, and libraries involved. You’ll learn how to structure your application in the data and domain layers, the technologies that go in each layer, and the role that each layer plays in keeping your application clean. You’ll understand how to arrange the code into these two layers and the components involved in assembling them. Finally, you'll cover the presentation layer and the patterns that can be applied to have a decoupled and testable code base. By the end of this architecture book, you'll be able to build an application following clean architecture principles and have the knowledge you need to maintain and test the application easily.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Introduction
6
Part 2 – Domain and Data Layers
10
Part 3 – Presentation Layer

Understanding Kotlin coroutines and Flows

In this section, we will look at how threading works in the Android ecosystem and what applications must do to ensure that long-running operations do not block the user from using an application. We will then look at what available options we have available to execute operations in the background, with a focus on coroutines. Finally, we will look over Kotlin flows, which we can use to handle asynchronous work using a reactive and functional approach.

Android applications normally run in a single process on a user's device. When the operating system starts the application's process, it will allocate memory resources for the process to be executed. This process, when started, will have one thread of execution running within. This thread is referred to as the "main thread" or "user interface (UI) thread". In Android, this concept is very important because it is the thread that deals with user interaction. This...