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Hi David & Dawn,
Thanks for clarifying my question on the welcome thread

I have a follow up question. Does this book discuss the key aspects of develop, test, build, deploy, run aspects of Android apps?

Thanks,
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Hello Raghu,

Yes we do discuss what happens when you build your app and how it gets installed on your app. We have a small amount of information on testing and how to publish your app to a store, but sadly (at 890 pages!) we couldn't afford to give it a huge amount of space.

We did a course for O'Reilly Media about a year or so ago on Android Internals, and that went into a *huge* amount of depth about how source code becomes JVM bytecode, which becomes Dalvik code, then an APK, then gets on-the-fly compiled into ARM machine code on the device itself. That's a level of detail we could never include in a book like HFAD, but if O'Reilly became convinced there was a demand for it, I'm sure they'd be happy for it to be run again

On testing, Google do provide quite good documentation for the fundamentals:

https://developer.android.com/training/testing/fundamentals

Compose Testing is a little different and is built on the semantic infrastructure:

https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/testing

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Hi David and Dawn,

I use Tailwind CSS for some dev projects. Does your book address using Tailwind CSS or Tailwind UI Components in Android Apps?

Thanks,

Geoff
 
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Hello Geoff,

No, we look exclusively at Android native development.

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