August 2020
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
20h 12m
English
book
Android Application Development All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition
by Barry Burd, John Paul Mueller
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Chapter 1
Getting an Overview of Jetpack
IN THIS CHAPTER
Considering the potential of Jetpack
Defining the Jetpack elements
Working with the AndroidX package
Interacting with lifecycle-aware components
Jetpack is all about making things simpler, and who doesn’t like that idea? Book 2 tells you about how Kotlin makes things easier when compared to Java, yet Kotlin also provides new ways of doing things. You use Jetpack to make things easier and perform new tasks by
- Reducing the amount of boilerplate code
- Ensuring that your app follows best practices more often than is possible through hand coding so that you don’t end up with horrid errors that are impossible to find
- Modularizing the development environment so that it’s easier to understand
- Unbundling the
androidx.*packages from the API to improve backward compatibility and ensure that you have the latest updates - Helping you manage the life span of your app so that it doesn't end up being some sort of Franken-app
Of course, you keep hearing about such features, but they never seem to be fully realized in most products. Jetpack ...
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