As a beginner for Android development, code samples I am learning from look somewhat disorganized and are hard to test or even to understand. So I followed this post suggested: Using Dependency Injection with Roboguice? and am trying to use Android-binding and Roboguice. But I am now worrying about how good they really are.
- Are they good enough for all Android projects including ones with a couple of views?
- After building an app with these tools, how is the app’s performance in comparison without the tools? Any problem with using these tools?
- Is there any other tool that can help me for Agile/TDD?
I’ve only used Roboguice and this is my opinion of it.
Roboguice is derived from Guice. So it’s not really a dependency injection framework built from the grounds up for mobile environment. That being said, it can cause quite some overhead to your app.
On the other hand, I haven’t seen any mobile app that reached a complexity that really needs dependency injection. I had an app the used Roboguice, but soon I realized that it’s making my app more complex than it needs to be. So I stripped it out. I guess this depends a lot on the scale of your app.