Google today published the source code for its I/O 2014 app in hopes of teaching developers some of its best practices for Android apps.
While you may have used the I/O 2014 app to plan your schedule at the conference, Google had bigger plans for the app. It’s designed to serve as a kind of template for other Android apps.
Google describes a number of features, APIs and design approaches that went into the app: “Fragments, Loaders, Services, Broadcast Receivers, alarms, notifications, SQLite databases, Content Providers, Action Bar, the Navigation Drawer, the Google Drive API, Google Cloud Messaging, material design, the Android L Preview APIs and Android Wear integration.”
The company rebuilt the app to work with JSON files instead of a specific API so that it can be easily repurposed for other conferences.
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In the future, Google plans to publish technical articles related to the source code, and it will update the app over the next few months.
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