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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

Structural patterns

These patterns are structured to understand exactly what they are doing, and can be made use of in multiple places because of their organized patterns. They create objects in a familiar arrangement that perform typical tasks. In Android, the structural patterns are Adapter and Facade.

Adapter

The word adapter says it all: it adapts itself to be a bridge between the data source and the type of view this data has to be displayed in; basically, the adapter view.

The data here might be of any kind, but it needs to be displayed in the same view, for which an adapter plays an important role.

The following figure identifies how the adapter binds the data with the view:

The data could be in any form, such as List...

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