Lists and rest resources

Lists and rest resources

Topics

Views
- Views: layouts, text, edit text, button
- Supporting Different Screens
- Multi-pane development in Android with Fragments
- Event handling: click listeners
- ListView
  - Tutorials:
    - Using lists in Android wth ListView - Tutorial
    - Android ListView Tutorial
  - API documentation
- RecyclerView
  - Tutorials:
    - Android RecyclerView Tutorial
    - Creating Lists and Cards
  - API documentation
- Progress indicators
  - Tutorials:
    - Progress Bar using ProgressDialog
    - Loading Spinner Tutorial
  - API documentation
    - ProgressBar
    - RatingBar
Background processing:
- AsyncTask
  - Tutorials:
    - Processes and Threads
    - Understanding AsyncTask
  - API documentation
    - AsyncTask
    - Thread
    - Handler
    - Executor
    - FutureTask
Networking:
- Tutorials:
- API documentation

Learning outcomes

Use a domain-driven layered architecture (activity/fragment/component, model/content, manager/service, net)
Put the business logic into a facade stateful layer (service, manager)
Use a net layer for REST clients
When fetching data, add progress indicators and take into account cancellation techniques
Add a pagination mechanism on the REST client, and add also a pagination strategy at the user interface layer (e.g. use infinite scrolling)

Lecture slides: PDF slides