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Hands-On Android UI Development

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Product type Book
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788475051
Pages 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jason Morris Jason Morris
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Jason Morris has been developing software for as long as he can remember. He's written software for the desktop, the server, for feature phones and for smart phones. He's written in many languages, and deployed in a variety of countries. Jason loves a good programming challenge, and when he's not writing code, or spending time with his family, taking photo's or camping: he's probably thinking about programming. In 2010 / 2011 he wrote Android User Interface Development: A Beginners Guide, which helped many beginner Android developers take their first steps into the realm of User Interface design and development for mobile devices.
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Creating Android Layouts Designing Form Screens Taking Actions Composing User Interfaces Binding Data to Widgets Storing and Retrieving Data Creating Overview Screens Designing Material Layouts Navigating Effectively Making Overviews Even Better Polishing Your Design Customizing Widgets and Layouts Activity Lifecycle
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  1. The Room API for Android provides which of the following?
    • A complete database solution
    • A lightweight API on top of SQLite
    • An object storage engine
  2. Returning LiveData from a Room DAO requires that you do which of these?
    • You observe it for changes in order to retrieve data
    • You run the query on the main thread
    • You call the query method again when notified by the LiveData object
  1. Database queries that don't return LiveData should do what?
    • Be avoided
    • Be run on a worker thread
    • Return Cursor objects
  2. Writing an update method for Room requires which of the listed?
    • An @Query(“UPDATE method on a DAO interface
    • An @Update method taking an Entity object on an interface
    • Will be added to your Entity implementations
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Authors (1)

Profile icon Jason Morris
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Jason Morris has been developing software for as long as he can remember. He's written software for the desktop, the server, for feature phones and for smart phones. He's written in many languages, and deployed in a variety of countries. Jason loves a good programming challenge, and when he's not writing code, or spending time with his family, taking photo's or camping: he's probably thinking about programming. In 2010 / 2011 he wrote Android User Interface Development: A Beginners Guide, which helped many beginner Android developers take their first steps into the realm of User Interface design and development for mobile devices.
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