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Kickstart Modern Android Development with Jetpack and Kotlin

You're reading from   Kickstart Modern Android Development with Jetpack and Kotlin Enhance your applications by integrating Jetpack and applying modern app architectural concepts

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801811071
Length 472 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Part 1: Exploring the Core Jetpack Suite and Other Libraries
2. Chapter 1: Creating a Modern UI with Jetpack Compose FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Handling UI State with Jetpack ViewModel 4. Chapter 3: Displaying Data from REST APIs with Retrofit 5. Chapter 4: Handling Async Operations with Coroutines 6. Chapter 5: Adding Navigation in Compose With Jetpack Navigation 7. Part 2: A Guide to Clean Application Architecture with Jetpack Libraries
8. Chapter 6: Adding Offline Capabilities with Jetpack Room 9. Chapter 7: Introducing Presentation Patterns in Android 10. Chapter 8: Getting Started with Clean Architecture in Android 11. Chapter 9: Implementing Dependency Injection with Jetpack Hilt 12. Chapter 10: Test Your App with UI and Unit Tests 13. Part 3: Diving into Other Jetpack Libraries
14. Chapter 11: Creating Infinite Lists with Jetpack Paging and Kotlin Flow 15. Chapter 12: Exploring the Jetpack Lifecycle Components 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 8: Getting Started with Clean Architecture in Android

In this chapter, we're continuing our journey of improving the architectural design of the Restaurants application.

More specifically, we will try to adopt some design decisions from the well-known Clean Architecture. Clean Architecture is a software design philosophy that tries to create projects with the best level of the following:

  • Separation of concerns
  • Testability
  • Independence of frameworks or libraries used in peripheral layers, such as the UI or Model layer

By doing so, Clean Architecture tries to allow the business parts of our applications to adapt to changing technologies and interfaces.

Clean Architecture is a very broad and complex topic, so, in this chapter, we will try to focus only on establishing a better separation of concerns by separating existing layers even further, but more importantly, by defining a new layer called the Domain layer.

In this chapter, we will on...

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