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Android Design Patterns and Best Practice

You're reading from   Android Design Patterns and Best Practice Create reliable, robust, and efficient Android apps with industry-standard design patterns

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467218
Length 370 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Design Patterns FREE CHAPTER 2. Creational Patterns 3. Material Patterns 4. Layout Patterns 5. Structural Patterns 6. Activating Patterns 7. Combining Patterns 8. Composing Patterns 9. Observing Patterns 10. Behavioral Patterns 11. Wearable Patterns 12. Social Patterns 13. Distribution Patterns

Chapter 4. Layout Patterns

In the previous chapters, we have looked at the most important patterns used for creating objects and at some of the most used material components. To bring these together, we need to consider the overall layouts an application might need. This allows us to plan our app in greater detail as well as introducing the interesting challenge of designing an app for different-sized screens and orientations. Android makes developing for a variety of screen sizes and shapes very simple and intuitive, and with a minimum of extra coding. We will then conclude by exploring and creating a strategy pattern.

In this chapter, you will learn how to:

  • Use relative and linear layouts
  • Apply gravity and weight
  • Scale weights with weightSum
  • Use the percent support library
  • Develop layouts for specific screen sizes
  • Create a strategy pattern

The Android platform provides a variety of layout classes. These range from the very simple frame layout to the quite complex layouts provided by...

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