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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

Customizing color and text


The first things we need to consider when applying a theme are colors and text. Material design guidelines recommend selecting these colors from a predefined series of palettes.

Using palettes

The two most significant colors we can edit in a material theme are the primary colors. They are applied directly to the status and app bars and give an app a distinctive look without affecting the uniform feel of the platform as a whole. Both these colors should be selected from the same color palette. There are many such palettes available, and the entire collection can be found at www.google.com/design/spec/style/color.html#color-color-palette.

Whichever palette you decide to use as your primary colors, Google recommend that you use shades with values of 500 and 700:

This does not have to be enforced too strictly, but it usually a good idea to stick close to these values and to always select two shades of the same color.

Tip

The theme editor can be very helpful here; not only...