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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

Chapter 13. Distribution Patterns

With most of the important aspects of Android development covered, we are left with just the processes of deploying and publishing. Simply getting an app published on the Google Play store is not a complex process, but there are a few tips and tricks that we can apply to maximize an app's potential reach, and of course, there is a growing number of ways to make money from our apps.

In this chapter, we will look at how to increase backwards compatibility beyond that provided by the support libraries, and then move on to see how the registration and distribution processes work, and then we will explore the various ways to make our application pay.

In this chapter, you will learn how to do the following:

  • Prepare an app for distribution

  • Generate a digital certificate

  • Register as a Google Developer

  • Prepare promotional material

  • Publish an app on Google Play store

  • Incorporate in-app billing

  • Include advertisements