{"id":1183,"date":"2018-05-28T08:58:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T08:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sysbunny.com\/blog\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2021-05-16T13:53:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T08:23:14","slug":"android-jetpack-a-promise-to-accelerate-app-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sysbunny.com\/blog\/android-jetpack-a-promise-to-accelerate-app-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Android Jetpack a Promise to Accelerate App Development"},"content":{"rendered":"Android app developers are always eager to know and implement various technological updates and tools to enhance their productivity, cut time to market and improve quality. The recent release of\u00a0<\/span>the Android Jetpack<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is meeting these needs beautifully.<\/span>\n

Introduction:<\/span><\/h3>\nRecently, Google has announced the release of the Android jetpack at the Google I\/O 2018 Developer\u2019s Conference and try to ease\u00a0<\/span>Android app development agency<\/span><\/a>\u00a0who used to struggle a lot while creating unique, complex, and significant scale Android apps with quick turnarounds.<\/span>\n\nAndroid Jetpack is a set of libraries, tools, and architectural guidance with common infrastructural code. Thus, it lets developers focus on development tasks for unique apps.<\/span>\n

Ultimate Advantages of Android Jetpack<\/span><\/h3>\nOut of many, some following benefits of Android Jetpack are noteworthy.<\/span>\n

Accelerate Android App Development<\/span><\/h4>\nEven though Android jetpack components are altogether different entities, but have the adaptability to work together, mainly when Android developers are using Kotlin and leverage its outstanding feature to be more productive.<\/span>\n

Saves Developers from Boilerplate Code<\/span><\/h4>\nIt manages tedious activities during Android development processes such as navigation, background tasks, and app lifecycle management. Thus, it eliminates to do boilerplate coding for developers and enables them to deliver the great app.<\/span>\n

Allows to Create Robust Apps with High Quality<\/span><\/h4>\nAndroid jetpack follows modern design practices, and its components enable fewer crashes, less memory leak, and backward compatibility.<\/span>\n

Organized and Categorized Components of Android Jetpack<\/span><\/h3>\nAndroid jetpack has several additional architectural components and libraries with extended support. Thus, we can categorize all into four divisions:<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n
Foundation<\/strong>\n\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nArchitecture<\/strong>\n\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nBehavior<\/strong>\n\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nUI<\/strong>\n\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AppCompat\n\nAndroid KTX\n\nMultidex\n\nTest<\/td>\nData Binding\n\nLifecycles\n\nLiveData\n\nNavigation\n\nPaging\n\nRoom\n\nViewModel\n\nWorkManager<\/td>\nDownload manager\n\nMedia & playback\n\nNotifications\n\nPermissions\n\nSharing\n\nSlices<\/td>\nAnimation & transitions\n\nAuto\n\nEmoji\n\nFragment\n\nLayout\n\nPalette\n\nTV\n\nWear OS by Google<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nLet\u2019s see each category individually with details.<\/span>\n

Foundation Components of Android Jetpack<\/span><\/h3>\nFoundation components are for core system capabilities, extensions & support for multidex and automated testing.<\/span>\n\nLet\u2019s check how the foundation components of the Android jetpack can\u00a0<\/span>enhance app development experiences for Android app developers<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\n

AppCompat<\/span><\/h4>\nIt provides backward compatibility with older versions of Android OS and devices by degrading gracefully.<\/span>\n

Android KTX<\/span><\/h4>\nIt allows writing idiomatic Kotlin code more concisely. It is a group of extensions to support Kotlin to simplify and cut boilerplate code.<\/span>\n

Multidex<\/span><\/h4>\nIt offers support for apps using multiple DEX files.<\/span>\n

Test<\/span><\/h4>\nIt is an Android framework for testing Unit and Runtime UI tests.<\/span>\n

Architecture Components of Android Jetpack<\/span><\/h3>\nIt is an accumulation of libraries to design robust, testable, and maintainable apps. It has classes for managing UI component lifecycle and data persistence. Let\u2019s check details on how we can use architectural components individually and in combination.<\/span>\n

Data Binding<\/span><\/h4>\nIt helps to bind observable data to UI elements.<\/span>\n

Lifecycles<\/span><\/h4>\nIt assists in designing UI, which automatically responds to lifecycle events.<\/span>\n

LiveData<\/span><\/h4>\nIt builds data objects to notify views whenever changes in the underlying database take place.<\/span>\n

Navigation<\/span><\/h4>\nIt helps in managing everything required in the development of in-app navigation. Technically, in-app navigation is a framework that builds the structure of UI. While developing in-app navigation, developers were facing issues of inconsistency in sharing and transition of data.<\/span>\n\nNavigation components help in dealing with inconsistency and extend full support to fragments.<\/span>\n

Paging<\/span><\/h4>\nIt loads a significant amount of data within UIs of your app gradually yet gracefully. It helps in enhancing the speed of scrolling using Recycler View.<\/span>\n

Room<\/span><\/h4>\nIt provides access to SQLite databases along with in-app objects and compile-time checks.<\/span>\n

ViewModel<\/span><\/h4>\nIt stores UI data that remain persistent even during app rotations.<\/span>\n

WorkManager<\/span><\/h4>\nIt helps in managing the background tasks of Android apps. It provides solutions to constraint-based background tasks in one place. It offers an API that allows developers to work on devices without any help from Google Play Services.<\/span>\n

Behavior Components of Android Jetpack<\/span><\/h3>\nJust like architectural components, behavioral components are helping in the behavioral tasks of Android applications. Let\u2019s see how they can.<\/span>\n

Download manager<\/span><\/h4>\nIt helps in scheduling and managing more massive downloads.<\/span>\n

Media & playback<\/span><\/h4>\nIt provides APIs for backward compatibility for media playback, routing, and Google cast.<\/span>\n

Notifications<\/span><\/h4>\nSimilarly, it provides APIs for backward compatibility for Wear and Auto.<\/span>\n

Permissions<\/span><\/h4>\nIt provides APIs for backward compatibility for checking and requesting app permissions.<\/span>\n

Sharing<\/span><\/h4>\nIt offers share action suitable for the action bar of the app.<\/span>\n

Slices<\/span><\/h4>\nIt provides versatile UI elements to display app data externally. It is a method that can surface UI inside the Google assistant for a search query.<\/span>\n

UI Components of Android Jetpack<\/span><\/h3>\nIt provides robust UI components to attract the eyes of onlookers and easy to use. Let\u2019s see which those components are.<\/span>\n

Animation & transitions<\/span><\/h4>\nIt helps in moving widgets and transitions between screens.<\/span>\n

Auto<\/span><\/h4>\nIt provides essential components to create apps for Android Auto.<\/span>\n

Emoji<\/span><\/h4>\nIt enables the latest emoji fonts on older versions of the Android ecosystem.<\/span>\n

Fragment<\/span><\/h4>\nIt is a fundamental unit of composable UI.<\/span>\n

Layout<\/span><\/h4>\nIt provides layout widgets for different algorithms.<\/span>\n

Palette<\/span><\/h4>\nIt pulls useful info from various color pallets.<\/span>\n

TV<\/span><\/h4>\nIt provides components to create apps for Android TV.<\/span>\n

Wear OS by Google<\/span><\/h4>\nIt offers components to develop an app for Wear OS.<\/span>\n

Conclusion:<\/span><\/h4>\nThe Android jetpack release is to accelerate app development speed and provides excellent libraries and components to the Android developers. Suppose you think of an app development project leveraging the immense advantages of the Android jetpack. In that case,\u00a0<\/span>SysBunny has an excellent team of Android app developers<\/a><\/span>\u00a0who used to use the latest technologies, tools, and offerings from the Android platform and community.<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Android app developers are always eager to know and implement various technological updates and tools to enhance their productivity, cut time to market and improve quality. The recent release of\u00a0the Android Jetpack\u00a0is meeting these needs beautifully. Introduction: Recently, Google has announced the release of the Android jetpack at the Google I\/O 2018 Developer\u2019s Conference and […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[277,21],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.sysbunny.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Android-Jetpack.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sysbunny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sysbunny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sysbunny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysbunny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysbunny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysbunny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3257,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysbunny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/3257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysbunny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sysbunny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysbunny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysbunny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}