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Expert Android Programming

You're reading from   Expert Android Programming Master skills to build enterprise grade Android applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468956
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prajyot Mainkar Prajyot Mainkar
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Preface 1. Understanding the Gradle System FREE CHAPTER 2. Exploring Android Studio Developer Tools 3. Leap into the Android Support Library 4. Google Play Services 5. Material Design 6. SOLID Android Development and Its Design Principles 7. Understanding MVC, MVP, MVVM and Clean Arch Patterns 8. Decision Making 9. Performance Matters 10. Building Restaurant finder 11. Backend Service 12. App Quality Service 13. Grow Up 14. Testing 15. Preparing for Google Play 16. Understanding App Store Analytics for Optimization

Versioning Your App

Versioning of the app is a critical course of the app release, as it maintains information on app upgrades and maintenance strategy. When users install the app, it provides information on details of the version and what this particular version has to offer. This also applies for users who install updates of an app that is installed on their devices. Services through which you will publish your app will also need to display the version to users. The publishing service may also check the app version to determine compatibility and perform the upgrade/downgrade action accordingly. Since the Android System does not use app version information to enforce restrictions on upgrading, downgrading, or the compatibility of third party apps, the developer has to configure this setting. Using the minSDKVersion setting, you can allow an app to specify the minimum system API...

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