Question

Background:

I’m creating an Android app (my second) and I’m not really sure how to structure it.
The section of the app I’m having issues with is basically a sort of simple catalogue; a user clicks a button which opens a layout containing a title (TextView) and an image (ImageView).

Image for clarity:

What is the best way to structure this? Since I’m pretty new to Android development, my approach would have been to create an activity for the first view (no.1), create a seperate activity for each of the "Products"-pages, "Products 1", "Products 2" etc. and a third activity for the single item view.

I know how to reuse the "single item"-layout (no.3) but I’m not really sure what the best approach is for no.2.

Question:

Should I create six new activities for "Products 1", "Products 2",..,"Products 6" and corresponding layouts for each? Or should I try to keep the number of activities to a minimum?

Any help is highly appriciated.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Your app is like a tree-structure app, so three activities/views are enough for your application.

1. Products Category List(Contains Product1, Product2, etc.)
2. Product List(Contains Product1-1, Product1-2, etc.)
3. Product(Contains image for a product)

You should not create an extra activity for every product because it will consume too many system resources.

For coding, you can make a base class since these three activities are similar, and put common elements into the base class.