Hello! Let's adapt the Eclipse Data Binding library for Android App programming. It s great. Steffen Nowacki, PartMaster _Rostock/Germany_2011

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1 Hello! Let's adapt the Eclipse Data Binding library for Android App programming. It s great. 2004

2 Problem (without Data binding ): The view can loose its state when rotating

3 Solution (approach) Monolith App 1. Introduce a model and separate it from the view. 2. Keep both in sync with data binding. View Data binding Model

4 Solution (model)

5 Solution (beans) Spec Coding Reflection List Matury Effort Use Support JAVA BEAN POJO UFACEKIT UBEAN EMF EOBJECT Code Size

6 Solution (binding library) General data binding Avoids boilerplate code Simplifies MVC architectures Supports validation and convertion Eclipse data binding Widgetkit agnostic Adapted for SWT/JFace, RAP, GWT, Swing Broadly proven in use

validation and convertion Eclipse data binding Widgetkit

target = AndroidObservables.observeChecked(button); IObservableValue model = BeansObservables.

7 Solution (binding code) public class MyBinding { private DataBindingContext databindingcontext = new DataBindingContext(); public Binding bind(compoundbutton button, AppState state) { IObservableValue target = AndroidObservables.observeChecked(button); IObservableValue model = BeansObservables.observeValue(state, "running"); Binding binding = databindingcontext.bindvalue(target, model); return binding; } }

8 Concepts IObservableValue target = AndroidObservables.observeChecked(button); IObservableValue model = BeansObservables.observeValue(state, "running"); Binding binding = databindingcontext.bindvalue(target, model); IObservableValue Observables Binding DataBindingContext

observeValue(state, "running"); Binding binding = databindingcontext.

9 Concepts (ObservableValue) IObservableValue target = AndroidObservables.observeChecked(button); IObservableValue model = BeansObservables.observeValue(state, "running"); Binding binding = databindingcontext.bindvalue(target, model); Wrapper with unified interface for property values

10 Concepts (Observables) IObservableValue target = AndroidObservables.observeChecked(button); IObservableValue model = BeansObservables.observeValue(state, "running"); Binding binding = databindingcontext.bindvalue(target, model); Factories for observable values

11 Concepts (Binding) IObservableValue target = AndroidObservables.observeChecked(button); IObservableValue model = BeansObservables.observeValue(state, "running"); Binding binding = databindingcontext.bindvalue(target, model); Synchronizer for a widget property and a bean property

12 Concepts (DataBindingContext) IObservableValue target = AndroidObservables.observeChecked(button); IObservableValue model = BeansObservables.observeValue(state, "running"); Binding binding = databindingcontext.bindvalue(target, model); Factory for bindings

13 Tasks 1. Create a data binding adapter for Android widgets. 2. Patch original Eclipse data binding JARs for usage with ProGuard

14 Task 1: Adapter A. Two special classes B. One wrapper class per widget property

15 Task 2: Patch Strip unsupported and unused classes 70 kb icu.base.jar 104 kb equinox.common.jar core.databinding.jar databinding.property.jar databinding.observable.jar 179 kb 165 kb 290 kb

16 Prototype Two knock-out criteria : 1.Performance goes down 2.App size goes up

17 Results (criteria) Criterion 1 (size) about 1MB (without shrinking) about 50KB (with shrinking) Shrinking is a MUST! Criterion 2 (performance) Not noticable

18 Results (experiences) Encourages clean code and is fun Learning effort is needed Debug into internals is difficult

19 Summary Real problem solution Great features No knock-out Criteria + =

20 Let's start the Android adapter for Eclipse data binding project: github.com/nowacki/databinding Thank you

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