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You're reading from Android Studio 4.1 Development Essentials – Java Edition Developing Android 11 Apps Using Android Studio 4.1, Java, and Android Jetpack

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801815161

Length 810 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Android

Concepts

Android Development

Author (1):

Neil Smyth

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Table of Contents (88) Chapters

1. Introduction

2. Setting up an Android Studio Development Environment FREE CHAPTER

3. Creating an Example Android App in Android Studio

4. Creating an Android Virtual Device (AVD) in Android Studio

5. Using and Configuring the Android Studio AVD Emulator

6. A Tour of the Android Studio User Interface

7. Testing Android Studio Apps on a Physical Android Device

8. The Basics of the Android Studio Code Editor

9. An Overview of the Android Architecture

10. The Anatomy of an Android Application

11. An Overview of Android View Binding

12. Understanding Android Application and Activity Lifecycles

13. Handling Android Activity State Changes

14. Android Activity State Changes by Example

15. Saving and Restoring the State of an Android Activity

16. Understanding Android Views, View Groups and Layouts

17. A Guide to the Android Studio Layout Editor Tool

18. A Guide to the Android ConstraintLayout

19. A Guide to using ConstraintLayout in Android Studio

20. Working with ConstraintLayout Chains and Ratios in Android Studio

21. An Android Studio Layout Editor ConstraintLayout Tutorial

22. Manual XML Layout Design in Android Studio

23. Managing Constraints using Constraint Sets

24. An Android ConstraintSet Tutorial

25. A Guide to using Apply Changes in Android Studio

26. An Overview and Example of Android Event Handling

27. Android Touch and Multi-touch Event Handling

28. Detecting Common Gestures using the Android Gesture Detector Class

29. Implementing Custom Gesture and Pinch Recognition on Android

30. An Introduction to Android Fragments

31. Using Fragments in Android Studio - An Example

32. Modern Android App Architecture with Jetpack

33. An Android Jetpack ViewModel Tutorial

34. An Android Jetpack LiveData Tutorial

35. An Overview of Android Jetpack Data Binding

36. An Android Jetpack Data Binding Tutorial

37. An Android ViewModel Saved State Tutorial

38. Working with Android Lifecycle-Aware Components

39. An Android Jetpack Lifecycle Awareness Tutorial

40. An Overview of the Navigation Architecture Component

41. An Android Jetpack Navigation Component Tutorial

42. Creating and Managing Overflow Menus on Android

43. An Introduction to MotionLayout

44. An Android MotionLayout Editor Tutorial

45. A MotionLayout KeyCycle Tutorial

46. Working with the Floating Action Button and Snackbar

47. Creating a Tabbed Interface using the TabLayout Component

48. Working with the RecyclerView and CardView Widgets

49. An Android RecyclerView and CardView Tutorial

50. A Layout Editor Sample Data Tutorial

51. Working with the AppBar and Collapsing Toolbar Layouts

52. An Android Studio Master/Detail Flow Tutorial

53. An Overview of Android Intents

54. Android Explicit Intents – A Worked Example

55. Android Implicit Intents – A Worked Example

56. Android Broadcast Intents and Broadcast Receivers

57. A Basic Overview of Threads and AsyncTasks

58. An Overview of Android Started and Bound Services

59. Implementing an Android Started Service – A Worked Example

60. Android Local Bound Services – A Worked Example

61. Android Remote Bound Services – A Worked Example

62. An Android Notifications Tutorial

63. An Android Direct Reply Notification Tutorial

64. Foldable Devices and Multi-Window Support

65. An Overview of Android SQLite Databases

66. The Android Room Persistence Library

67. An Android TableLayout and TableRow Tutorial

68. An Android Room Database and Repository Tutorial

69. Accessing Cloud Storage using the Android Storage Access Framework

70. An Android Storage Access Framework Example

71. Video Playback on Android using the VideoView and MediaController Classes

72. Android Picture-in-Picture Mode

73. An Android Picture-in-Picture Tutorial

74. Making Runtime Permission Requests in Android

75. Android Audio Recording and Playback using MediaPlayer and MediaRecorder

76. Working with the Google Maps Android API in Android Studio

77. Printing with the Android Printing Framework

78. An Android HTML and Web Content Printing Example

79. A Guide to Android Custom Document Printing

80. An Introduction to Android App Links

81. An Android Studio App Links Tutorial

82. A Guide to the Android Studio Profiler

83. An Android Biometric Authentication Tutorial

84. Creating, Testing and Uploading an Android App Bundle

85. An Overview of Android Dynamic Feature Modules

86. An Android Studio Dynamic Feature Tutorial

87. An Overview of Gradle in Android Studio

Index

2.7 Android Studio Memory Management

Android Studio is a large and complex software application that consists of many background processes. Although Android Studio has been criticized in the past for providing less than optimal performance, Google has made significant performance improvements in recent releases and continues to do so with each new version. Part of these improvements include allowing the user to configure the amount of memory used by both the Android Studio IDE and the background processes used to build and run apps. This allows the software to take advantage of systems with larger amounts of RAM.

If you are running Android Studio on a system with sufficient unused RAM to increase these values (this feature is only available on 64-bit systems with 5GB or more of RAM) and find that Android Studio performance appears to be degraded it may be worth experimenting with these memory settings. Android Studio may also notify you that performance can be increased via a dialog similar to the one shown below:

Figure 2-8

To view and modify the current memory configuration, select the File -> Settings... (Android Studio -> Preferences... on macOS) menu option and, in the resulting dialog, select the Memory Settings option listed under System Settings in the left-hand navigation panel as illustrated in Figure 2-9 below.

When changing the memory allocation, be sure not to allocate more memory than necessary or than your system can spare without slowing down other processes.

Figure 2-9

The IDE memory setting adjusts the memory allocated to Android Studio and applies regardless of the currently loaded project. When a project is built and run from within Android Studio, on the other hand, a number of background processes (referred to as daemons) perform the task of compiling and running the app. When compiling and running large and complex projects, build time may potentially be improved by adjusting the daemon heap settings. Unlike the IDE heap settings, these settings apply only to the current project and can only be accessed when a project is open in Android Studio.

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