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Expert Android Programming

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Expert Android Programming

Overview of this book

Android O brings a number of important changes for the users as well as the developers. If you want to create smart android applications which are fast, lightweight and also highly efficient then this is the book that will solve all your problems. You will create a complex enterprise grade app in this book. You will get a quick refresher of the latest android SDK and how to configure your development environment. Then you will move onto creating app layouts, component and module building, creating smart and efficient UIs. The most important part of a modern day app is how real time they are. With this book, you will create a smooth back-end for your app, ensure dynamic and real time communication between different app layers. As we move on, you will learn to leverage the different Android APIs and create an efficient SQLite data layer for your apps. You will implement effective testing techniques to make your app reliable and robust and finally you will learn to deploy it efficiently. The multiple stages of android development will also be simplified by giving you an industry standard set of best practices.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Building Restaurant finder

Behavioral pattern

This pattern helps you to define the behavior of your code, or why a particular code is written in the way is has been written.

Command

When you write code, it should be commanding other code to give some expected result based on the inputs that are provided. This type of pattern coding has some inputs called parameters. They are being sent to some functionality to process the result and give it back to us.

A simple example is the process of making toast. You provide the toaster with the bread. The toaster does its work of heating the bread and gives out the result as toast.

Observer

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