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Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 5th Edition
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Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 5th Edition

by Bryan Sills, Brian Gardner, Kristin Marsicano, Chris Stewart
May 2022
Intermediate to advanced
688 pages
20h 12m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Philosophies of State

Let’s start by discussing how framework views approach state. The apps you worked on earlier in this book actually had two representations of UI state. The first was built by you, generally defined with data classes and managed by ViewModels. This kind of state is often called application state or app state, because this state controls the behavior of your app as a whole and is how your app sees the world. Your Compose app will also have app state, and it will be defined similarly.

The second representation of UI state in framework views lived inside the Views themselves. Think about the framework CheckBox and EditText views. When the user presses a CheckBox or enters new text in an EditText, that input immediately ...

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