Chapter 1: Getting Started with Clean Architecture
In this chapter, we'll take you back and show you how a feature would have been implemented in the past while analyzing the potential issues and problems with that approach. Then, we'll look at some key design principles for software development and apply those principles to our legacy examples. After that, we'll cover the evolution of the Android platform and the various libraries and frameworks that have emerged. We'll also see how they can be integrated while adhering to various software design principles.
After that, we'll introduce clean architecture so that we know what our system needs to be improved and what questions we must ask, as developers, so that we can create a robust, scalable, maintainable, and testable application.
In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:
- The architecture of a legacy app
- Software design principles
- Exploring the evolution of Android
- Enter clean architecture
By the end of this chapter, you will know about the evolution of Android development, its architecture, and its design concepts, as well as the concept of clean architecture and how it can be used to build flexible, maintainable, and testable applications.
