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Android Programming for Beginners

You're reading from   Android Programming for Beginners Learn all the Java and Android skills you need to start making powerful mobile applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785883262
Length 698 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paresh Mayani Paresh Mayani
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Table of Contents (32) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The First App FREE CHAPTER 2. Java – First Contact 3. Exploring Android Studio 4. Designing Layouts 5. Real-World Layouts 6. The Life and Times of an Android App 7. Coding in Java Part 1 – Variables, Decisions, and Loops 8. Coding in Java Part 2 – Methods 9. Object-Oriented Programming 10. Everything's a Class 11. Widget Mania 12. Having a Dialogue with the User 13. Handling and Displaying Arrays of Data 14. Handling and Displaying Notes in Note To Self 15. Android Intent and Persistence 16. UI Animations 17. Sound FX and Supporting Different Versions of Android 18. Design Patterns, Fragments, and the Real World 19. Using Multiple Fragments 20. Paging and Swiping 21. Navigation Drawer and Where It's Snap 22. Capturing Images 23. Using SQLite Databases in Our Apps 24. Adding a Database to Where It's Snap 25. Integrating Google Maps and GPS Locations 26. Upgrading SQLite – Adding Locations and Maps 27. Going Local – Hola! 28. Threads, Touches, Drawing, and a Simple Game 29. Publishing Apps 30. Before You Go Index

The imperfections of Note To Self revisited

Actually, as mentioned before, we did not use a strict MVC pattern in that app. If you remember, the ArrayList of notes was actually held in the Activity class. In our next app, we will see how to improve our adherence to the MVC pattern with the use of a specially designed Java class, the singleton. The singleton is not yet another class type such as, inner, anonymous, static, interface, and so on. It is simply a way in which we can design and code a regular class in order to make our code more adherent to the MVC pattern and therefore more manageable as it becomes more complex, more potentially reusable in the future, and more understandable to other developers who might get involved with the project.

So, why did we do it wrong in our Note To Self app? For simplicity. When designing the Note To Self app, we knew that it was never going to be a big or complex project, and it was never going to be worked on simultaneously by more than one developer...

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