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Android Design Patterns and Best Practice

By : Kyle Mew
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Android Design Patterns and Best Practice

By: Kyle Mew

Overview of this book

Are you an Android developer with some experience under your belt? Are you wondering how the experts create efficient and good-looking apps? Then your wait will end with this book! We will teach you about different Android development patterns that will enable you to write clean code and make your app stand out from the crowd. The book starts by introducing the Android development environment and exploring the support libraries. You will gradually explore the different design and layout patterns and get to know the best practices of how to use them together. Then you’ll then develop an application that will help you grasp activities, services, and broadcasts and their roles in Android development. Moving on, you will add user-detecting classes and APIs such as gesture detection, touch screen listeners, and sensors to your app. You will also learn to adapt your app to run on tablets and other devices and platforms, including Android Wear, auto, and TV. Finally, you will see how to connect your app to social media and explore deployment patterns as well as the best publishing and monetizing practices. The book will start by introducing the Android development environment and exploring the support libraries. You will gradually explore the different Design and layout patterns and learn the best practices on how to use them together. You will then develop an application that will help you grasp Activities, Services and Broadcasts and their roles in Android development. Moving on, you will add user detecting classes and APIs such as at gesture detection, touch screen listeners and sensors to our app. You will also learn to adapt your app to run on tablets and other devices and platforms, including Android Wear, Auto, and TV. Finally, you will learn to connect your app to social media and explore deployment patterns and best publishing and monetizing practices.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Android Design Patterns and Best Practice
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Integrating Twitter


Twitter provides a very different social platform to Facebook, and people use it very differently as well. It is, however, another powerful tool in our arsenal, and like Facebook, it offers unparalleled promotional opportunities.

Twitter employs a powerful framework integration tool called Fabric that allows developers to integrate Twitter functionality into our applications. Fabric can be downloaded directly into Android Studio as a plugin. Before downloading the plugin, it is necessary to register with Fabric. This is free and can be found at fabric.io.

Once registered, open Android Studio and then select Browse Repositories... from Settings > Plugins:

Once installed, Fabric has walk-through tutorial system and requires no further instruction. However it is not necessary to use this framework at all if all your app needs to do is post single tweets as this can be achieved with the vanilla SDK.

Sending tweets

Fabric is a sophisticated tool and, thanks to its inbuilt...