Troubleshooting Android Performance
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- Work with the cloud in a way that will be seamless to your users.
- How to work with the UI thread and how to run non-UI related tasks in the background for more pleasant user experience.
- Debug your UI and manage the way you want it to look.
- Ways to optimize your app for good battery usage.
Memory leaks are an oft-forgotten aspect of software development. Here, we discuss them in detail.
• Start by defining how memory is allocated
• Discuss the garbage collector
• Look at how a memory leak can occur
This video is about the importance of keeping non-UI tasks (such as a network request) on a background thread.
• Talk about threads and the dedicated UI thread
• Look at how to run a task in the background using AsyncTask
• Explore how to run a task in the background using the Thread class
This video talks about the importance of keeping your app responsive while making a network request.
• Understand that keeping your user waiting is a bad idea
• Mention that keeping your app responsive at all times is the best
• See how to accomplish this using AsyncTask’s methods
In this video, we will discuss some details about the UI thread that helps in developing a performant app.
• Begin showing how we can invoke code on different threads
• See how to check which thread you’re on when debugging
• Understand how to check which thread you’re on in your code
In this video, we talk about flat vs nested view hierarchies. We end with a discussion on ConstraintLayout.
• Define what flat and nested view hierarchies are
• Mention some drawbacks with classical layouts such as LinearLayout and RelativeLayout
• See the ContraintLayout and how to use it in Android Studio
In this video, we talk about Developer Options and how they can help debug your app.
• Show how to enable developer options
• Explore different features available in Developer Options
• See how to add some of the options in the notification system bar
Battery management is a difficult topic to tackle. Here, we discuss the method of Lazy First to help manage the battery.
• Define the 3 tenants of Lazy First
• Go into a bit more detail into managing the battery drain by using Android’s APIs
• Discuss Battery Historian a bit and give a link for more information
Developers often forget that they are working within an ecosystem, and they forget to keep the user’s happiness in mind.
• Begin with some nuisances that apps can establish that would turn the users away
• Give some advice on how they can build apps that fit with the other apps
• Learn about having less notifications to not annoy users
- Some basic knowledge of Android development and Android Studio is assumed.
Have you started developing an Android application only to find the app is slower than you expected? Or that certain tasks are not working as you expected? Dealing with performance issues on Android is a common experience many developers face. Performance is a key requirement in any good app that user's don't necessarily look for, but experience every time they open an app.
If the earlier questions apply to you, look no further! This course will help you overcome common performance issues on Android. In this course, we go over the important and common areas that can affect performance such as memory, network, UI, and battery. We delve into issues such as memory management, where we will look at memory leaks and tracking allocations. We also look at optimizing your user experience when working with data on the cloud. We also go into some common pitfalls when working with your UI and how to debug it. Finally, we look at ways to optimize and debug your app's battery usage to ensure that it doesn't annoy users when they've installed your app.
When you're completed with this course, you will be developing applications more efficiently, without having to worry about your code affecting the performance that your users experience.
About the Author
Yusuf Saber is an Android developer with over 5 years' professional experience. Yusuf earned his Master's degree in Computer Engineering from Ryerson University in 2011 and started his career as a .NET developer before quickly turning to Android. He has worked on a large range of Android apps, from social to multimedia to B2B—and more! You can see some of his public apps on Google Play too
- This course is specially designed for beginner Android developers who want to get rid of common errors and pitfalls in order to improve Android performance.