Recap and Slides

Today we talked mostly about ListView, Adapters, and RecyclerView. Plus a bit on Fragments. This felt like the most boring lecture to date to me. Too much stepping through too much code, seemed to be the consensus. Here are the code-heavy slides.

Here are the slides:

• Lecture 4: Advanced UI

Links

General links:

• Creating Lists and Cards
• Mastering Coordinator Layout: A good overview, with gifs, about Coordinator Layout.

In class today I talked about how I don’t like Fragments. I think they are more trouble than they are worth, and come with a very complex lifecycle that is the source of many bugs. Here are some links discussing similar things.

• Advocating Against Android Fragments: A really great overview on testable UI in Android, and the trouble Fragments gave them. Highly recommended.
• No Fragments, Rich Views
• The Complete and Hairy Android Lifecycle