Building Apps with Android Architecture Components

By Omri Erez
Programming Android apps can be a complex process and lack of knowledge in architecting your app can result in spaghetti code and dead ends. This course will teach you to utilize the ARCH components libraries and master building Android apps.
Course info
Level
Beginner
Updated
Feb 15, 2018
Duration
2h 24m
Table of contents
The Importance of Software Architecture Planning
The Complexity of Software and Android Apps 4m Code Jedis and Trolls 3m The SOLID Principles Part 1 4m The SOLID Principles Part 2 5m Your Demo App at Its Initial State 4m Summary 2m
Understanding Common Android Architectural Patterns
Overview 2m MVC: Model View Controller 1m MVP: Model View Presenter 2m MVVM: Model View ViewModel 3m Comparison 2m The Clean Architecture 4m Summary 1m
Implementing Life Cycle Aware Components
Why Should You Use Life Cycle Aware Components? 4m How Does It Work? 2m LCA Demo 1 5m LCA Demo 2 4m Comparison and Summary 4m
Using ViewModel with the LiveData Framework
The ViewModel Component 4m Demo: The ViewModel Without ARCH 5m Demo: The ViewModel with ARCH 4m The LiveData Framework 3m Demo: Utilizing LiveData Inside Your ViewModel 5m Demo: Utilizing LiveData Inside Your Activity 4m Comparison and Summary 5m
Persisting Your Data with the Room Persistence Solution
Persistence Introduction 4m Demo: Data Layer Refactoring 3m Demo: The Repository 4m Transitional SQLite vs. Room 5m Demo: Room Entities Implementation 2m Room Data Access Objects and Database Definition 2m Demo: Room Dao and Database Implementation 5m Data Migrations with Room 2m Summary 3m
Testing Your Architecture
Introduction 3m UI Testing 2m Demo: Exerciser Monkey 2m Unit Tests 1m Demo: Unit Test 5m Demo: Instrumentation Unit Test - DAO 4m Demo: Instrumentation Unit Test - ViewModel 1m Summary 2m Course Summary 6m
Course Overview
Course Overview 2m
Description
Course info
Level
Beginner
Updated
Feb 15, 2018
Duration
2h 24m
Description

At the core of developing Android apps is a thorough knowledge of architecting your code with an effective structure. In this course, Building Apps with Android Architecture Components, you’ll learn foundational knowledge of ARCH components in order to implement your app with a well-structured architecture with minimum development effort. First, you’ll learn why architecture is important and the most commonly used architectural patterns in Android. Next, you’ll explore the new ViewModel component, LiveData, and Room frameworks. Finally, you’ll discover how to write basic tests in order to verify the functionality of your new app’s architecture components. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have a foundational knowledge of utilizing the different ARCH components that will help you as you move forward to build well structured Android apps with an enhanced and robust structure.

About the author
Omri Erez
About the author

Omri Erez is a software engineer and award-winning Android developer. He lives and breathes Android, working as an independent development team consultant and hands-on lead developer.

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Section Introduction Transcripts
Section Introduction Transcripts

Course Overview
Hi everyone, my name is Omri Erez, and I'd like to welcome you to my Pluralsight course, build well-structured apps with Android Architecture Components. I've been a professional software engineer for over 10 years now focusing on the Android platform. Developing Android applications is a complex task and sometimes we forget about the structure and architecture of our code. In order to deliver an extendable, maintainable, and testable code base we have to think about the architecture of our application from the very first stage of our development. In this course, we are going to learn together how to write Android apps with a robust structure and we will utilize the various art components, which will result in architecture with well-defined layers. Specifically we will learn about the following subjects, the SOLID principles and commonly-used architectural patterns on Android, the ARCH, ViewModel, and lifecycle-aware components, the LiveData framework, the Room persistence solution, and how to test your architecture using various test types. By the end of this course you will know how to utilize the various ARCH components and how to produce Android apps with a robust architecture, which will be both extendable and testable. This course is specially designed for beginners. Before starting this course you should have basic knowledge of Android development and Android Studio. I hope you will join me on this exciting journey to learn about Android Architecture Components with build well-structured apps with Android architecture components course, here at Pluralsight.

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