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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

Summary


Integrating social media into our mobile apps is a powerful tool and can make all the difference to the success of an app. In this chapter, we have seen how Facebook and Twitter provide software tools to facilitate this, and of course, other social media, such as Instagram and WhatsApp, provide similar developer tools.

Social media is an ever-changing world, and new platforms as well as development tools are appearing all the time, and there is no reason to believe that Twitter and even Facebook might one day go the way of MySpace. This is yet another reason to consider using WebViews where possible: creating simple web apps within our main apps allows us a higher degree of flexibility.

This brings us almost to the end of our journey, and in the next chapter we will look at what is generally the final stage of development, publication. However, this is also the point where we have to consider potential income, particularly advertising and in-app purchasing.