50 Android Hacks

Chapter 7. Useful libraries

In this chapter, we’ll cover two third-party libraries. The first one lets you use aspect-oriented programming inside an Android application. The second is a game framework. We’ll walk through what’s possible when you add them to your application.

Hack 31 Aspect-oriented programming in Android: Android v1.6+

Have you ever tried to add analytics, ads, and logs to an Android Activity? If you have, you know that your class can get polluted with a lot of code that has nothing to do with your Activity’s logic. In this hack, you’ll see how to solve this issue using aspect-oriented programming (AOP). As an example, we’ll add a log statement to the Activity’s onCreate() method using AOP to make sure that the Activity doesn’t ...