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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

Summary

In this chapter, we started looking into the data layer of an Android application and provided an overview of the components that are part of this layer. We also looked at the Repository component, which is responsible for managing the data provided by one or more data sources, and provided examples of how we could build different repositories. We also looked at the relationship between repositories and data sources and how we can further decouple the components with dependency inversion, to keep our repositories unaffected by changes in libraries used to fetch data. Finally, we looked at an exercise on how we can build repositories with local and remote data sources. In the following chapter, we will continue with the data layer and how we can integrate the remote and local data sources with libraries such as Room and Retrofit.