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Improving, Testing, and Refactoring a Legacy Android App

by Vladimir Jovanovic

The Android platform is old enough that there is an abundance of legacy projects that someone needs to support and work on. This course will teach you the skills necessary to help companies support and improve their legacy apps.

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What you'll learn

Working on a legacy Android project poses a lot of challenges. In this course, Improving, Testing, and Refactoring a Legacy Android App, you’ll learn to work with a legacy Android application. First, you’ll explore what legacy code is and what the problems are when working with legacy code. Next, you’ll discover best practices when refactoring legacy code. Finally, you’ll learn how to test legacy code. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of working with legacy code needed to maintain and improve legacy Android applications.

Table of contents

Course Overview
1min
What Is Legacy Code?
19mins
Rewriting
17mins
Working with Legacy Code
30mins
Testing a Legacy Code
23mins
Refactoring and Modularization
53mins

About the author

Vladimir Jovanovic

Vladimir Jovanović is a passionate Android developer. Since Android 2.2, he has been helping companies have clean and stable Android applications. He currently lives in Berlin and is an active member of Berlin's Android community.

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