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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

Using Dagger 2 to manage dependencies

In this section, we will analyze the Dagger 2 library, how it handles DI, how it works, how it is integrated into an Android application, and what issues it might create.

The Dagger 2 library relies on code generation based on annotation processing, which will generate the boilerplate code that is required to perform DI. The library is written in Java, and it is used for various projects outside of Android applications. Because it is written in Java, it provides compatibility for apps written in Java, Kotlin, or both. The library is built using Java Specification Requests (JSR) 330, which provide a set of useful annotations for DI (@Inject, @Named, @Qualifier, @Scope, and @Singleton).

When integrating Dagger 2, there are three main concepts that we will need to consider:

  • Provider: This is represented by the classes responsible for providing the dependencies, using the @Module annotation for the classes and @Provides for the methods...