Question

I am new to developing for android. I have a question regarding some best practices. My app is like a dashboard from which multiple different “sub-activities” can be started and done.

I am wondering what is the best way to structure the app. One way is to have different layouts and load and unload them appropriately. The other is to start new activities using intents. At least this is what i have gathered from what i have read.

What in your opinion is the best way to go.

Thanks

Answer 1

I’ve found in my applications that each Activity is generally responsible for a single UI view.

So rather than loading and unloading different layouts, which can potentially get quite messy, it is better to separate each sub-activity into its own Activity class and use explicit intents (intents that name the target activity explicitly rather than relying on an intent filter) to move between them.