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Learning Android Application Development: Start building for the world's most popular mobile platform

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Learning Android Application Development

Chapter 2. Activities and Fragments - The Backbone of Your App

Activities and fragments are two of the most important concepts for an Android developer to master. In fact, in just about any Android-related programming interview, a common starting question is to ask a candidate to describe and outline activities, fragments, and their respective life cycles!

Broadly speaking, most Android apps consist of a series of connected screens that a user is able to navigate through. Obviously, more complex apps can be offered additional functionality such as background services, cloud messaging, broadcast receivers, and so on. However, the core UI will usually be centered around navigating through a series of connected activities or fragments nested within an activity.

A simple example of this basic UI in, for instance, a cooking-recipe application, would be a screen displaying a list of available recipes (Recipe List Activity) and another screen displaying details of each recipe (Recipe Detail...

Activities

Google describes an activity as an application component that provides a screen for a user to interact with. An Activity can be used to display information, call someone, or to even play a game. As mentioned earlier, a typical Android app consists of multiple activities and allows a user to navigate through them (an example of this is shown in the following screenshot). These Activities represent the basic building blocks of an application and knowing how to create and manage activities is fundamental to Android development. The following screenshot shows an example of navigating from a list activity to detail activity on an Android device. For more information, visit http://developer.android.com/guide/components/activities.html.

Activities

Each activity can contain a set of views and even fragments presenting information to users and to allow users to interact with the application. The preceding list-detail pattern is common among Android apps and can be seen in the stock apps provided...

Creating activities

Now that we have gone through the essentials and covered the activity boilerplate introduction, we can actually begin to have some fun and create our first activities! In this simple example, we will cover how to launch an activity and show how to extend the Activity super class to create an instance of our own activity. This will be a very simple introductory example and should not take more than 20-25 minutes to complete. So grab a coffee and let's get started!

Defining your activity

In the previous chapter, we introduced the Android App Manifest (AndroidManifest.xml) that contains essential information such as the package name and components of an application. For each activity in your application, you must create a corresponding entry in the app manifest along with additional information such as theme of the activity.

Creating an entry in the manifest is easy and you will only need the name of your activity in this example. You also need to add your activities...

Fragments

Informally, fragments are UI building blocks and are analogous to activities. They can be treated as subactivities and multiple fragments can be placed in a single activity. Fragments can represent screens within an application and are typically associated with a particular task such as a map fragment. Fragments can also exist within fragments to allow module portions of activities to be easily reused. Google formally defines a fragment as a piece of an application's user interface that can be placed in an activity (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Fragment.html). Like activities, fragments have their own life cycles complete with similar callback events to use when implementing custom fragments. Fragments can also be placed on a stack for activity-like navigation through an app, complete with back button support.

Definitions and introductions aside, fragments are one of the most useful concepts to master in Android and they will make your life much easier...

Creating fragments

As with activities, now that we have covered the same old dry introduction to fragments, we can actually begin to use them! In the following sections, we will cover how to create fragments, create a static Fragment constructor, and instantiate a fragment that binds one or several fragments into a single parent activity.

Creating our own fragment

As we did in the activity example, perform the following steps:

  1. Open the Project tab on the right-hand side of the screen.
  2. Right-click on the com.example folder.
  3. Go to New | Java Class and name the class SampleFragment.

As all custom activities extend the class Activity, all custom fragments extend the class Fragment.

Note

If you are using the support library, you can choose to either use the Fragment class built into Android as of Honeycomb (API v11) or the android.support.v4.app.Fragment class bundled as part of the support library. If you are planning on supporting devices pre-ICS (API v14), you must...

Navigating through an app

In this section, we will cover how to navigate between fragments in your app. To keep things simple for the chapter, we will build upon our existing SampleActivity example and show how to add simple navigation to our application.

Activity navigation

Navigating between activities is one of the simplest actions that you can perform and is very commonly used. In the following example, we will show how to move from one instance of our SampleActivity (which we will refer to as activity A) to another instance of SampleActivity (which we will refer to as activity B). As we have already added the SampleActivity to our Android app manifest, we do not need to add an additional entry.

First, we will start by modifying the layout file to add an extra view. This view is a Button, and we will hook up this button to perform the activity navigation. The updated layout file should look like this:

<LinearLayout 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res...

Activities

Google describes an activity as an application component that provides a screen for a user to interact with. An Activity can be used to display information, call someone, or to even play a game. As mentioned earlier, a typical Android app consists of multiple activities and allows a user to navigate through them (an example of this is shown in the following screenshot). These Activities represent the basic building blocks of an application and knowing how to create and manage activities is fundamental to Android development. The following screenshot shows an example of navigating from a list activity to detail activity on an Android device. For more information, visit http://developer.android.com/guide/components/activities.html.

Each activity can contain a set of views and even fragments presenting information to users and to allow users to interact with the application. The preceding list-detail pattern is common among Android apps and can be seen in the stock apps provided...

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  • Get started with Android development, from the installation of required tools to publishing to the market
  • Make your applications Android N ready—Android has evolved quite a lot since the very beginning and so has their Software Development Kit—so get up to speed
  • Save time and improve the quality of your applications with widely used open source libraries and dependency management

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The mobile app market is huge. But where do you start? And how you can deliver something that takes Google Play by storm? This guide is the perfect route into Android app development – while it’s easy for new apps to sink without a trace, we’ll give you the best chance of success with practical and actionable guidance that will unlock your creativity and help you put the principles of Android development into practice. From the fundamentals and getting your project started to publishing your app to a huge market of potential customers, follow this guide to become a confident, creative and reliable mobile developer. Get to grips with new components in Android 7 such as RecyclerView, and find out how to take advantage of automated testing, and, of course, much, much more. What are you waiting for? There’s never been a better time – or a better way – to get into Android app development.

Who is this book for?

Want to get started with Android development? Start here.

What you will learn

  • Get to know how to use popular open source libraries to reduce time to market and avoid re-inventing the wheel
  • Automate your application's testing phase to avoid last minute crashes
  • Use dependency management to properly keep dependencies and updates under control
  • Efficiently show huge amounts of items in a list
  • Forget about memory and speed concerns
  • Publish and monetize your Android applications on Google Play
  • Persist your application data so it can continue working in offline mode
  • Don't let the UX break because of network issues

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1. Getting Started with Android Development Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
1. Getting Started with Android Development
Setting up Android Studio
Creating a sample project
Additional elements
Summary
2. Activities and Fragments - The Backbone of Your App Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Activities and Fragments - The Backbone of Your App
Activities
Creating activities
Fragments
Creating fragments
Navigating through an app
Summary
3. Working with Views – Interacting with Your App Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Working with Views – Interacting with Your App
Views and ViewGroups
Building a user interface using views and ViewGroups
Creating custom views
Additional user interface components
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4. Lists and Adapters
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Adapters
RecyclerView
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5. Remote Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Remote Data
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Background processing
Network code
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6. Image Management Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Image Management
Caching remote data
Loading images
Widely used third-party libraries
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7. Permanent Data
Storing preferences
Files
SQLite
Third-party libraries
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Testing logic
Testing the UI
Putting it all together
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9. Publishing Your Application Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Publishing Your Application
Preparation steps
Publishing your application on Google Play
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10. Monetization – Make Money with Your App
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Raimon Ràfols is a Software Engineer currently living in the Barcelona area. He has been working on mobile devices since the early ages: from monochrome devices to the current smartphones. In all these years he worked in several areas: B2C/B2E/B2B apps, portals and mobile gaming. Due to this broad experience, he has expertise in many technologies and, especially in UI, build systems and client-server communications. He is currently working as Engineering Manager at AXA Group Solutions in Barcelona, taking care of all the engineering and development processes, mobile application quality and leading a small R&D team. In the past, he has been working abroad for Imagination Technologies near London and for Service2Media in the Netherlands. In his spare time he enjoys taking part in hackathons, photography and giving talks in conferences. Raimon has won more than 40 international awards including AngelHack Barcelona 2015, Facebook World Hack Barcelona and 2nd place at js1k 2016. He has been speaking about Java/Android performance and bytecode, Android custom views and about entrepreneurship in several conferences around the world. I would like to thank my girlfriend for her support and understanding during the late night and lengthy writing weekends. Also, I would like to thank my parents and cousin, as without their support and encouragement, I would not be doing what I do today. Last, but not least, I would like to thank everyone that challenged me and help me grow up during my professional career. People like Carlos Carrasco, Alfred Ferrer, Pau Vivancos, Miquel Barceló, David Domingo, Marcel Roorda, Diego Morales, Alberto Chamorro, Teun van Run, Tom van Wietmarschen, Josep Cedó, Joanne Pupo, Jordi Valldaura, Mathieu Sivade, Chris Jakob, Tomas Kustrzynski, Bartłomiej Żarnowski, Radosław Holewa and those I have forgotten to mention here.
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