Uploaded November 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Applications architecture is a broad and important topic in software development, which has been neglected by official guidelines for Android for a very long time. In spite of that, the interest in architecture among the members of Android community has been growing steadily over the years. Official guidelines and tools slowly caught up with the community interests, which culminated in a recent announcement of a set of libraries called Android Architecture Components by Google developers. While the motivation behind Android Architecture Components is clear, the relation between these libraries and application architecture is not so evident. Furthermore, the way these components address the issues that Android developers experienced over the years hides a new set of potential issues and gotchas under the hood. In this session we will attempt to understand what software architecture is and what it isn't, and discuss several potential pitfalls associated with Android Architecture Components.