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Donn Felker

Kaushik Gopal

Fragmented

In this episode, we touch on a note so widely discussed topic: should Android application today use a BaseActivity? Doesn't that wreak of inheritance over composition? What would uncle Joshua say about this ineffective approach? What are alternative options? do we have any?


In this episode, Kaushik tries to talk through this question.

Thanks to friends of the show [Jeroen](https://twitter.com/molsjeroen), [Yigit](https://twitter.com/yigitboyar?lang=en) and a bunch of others who ran through some ideas on this one.

* [Application.registerActivityLifecycleCallbacks](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Application#registerActivityLifecycleCallbacks(android.app.Application.ActivityLifecycleCallbacks))
* [Android X Lifecycle Component](https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/lifecycle)
* [Ep 16: Favor composition over inheritance](https://fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/16/)

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Donn Felker

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Kaushik Gopal

@kaushikgopal

Fragmented · December 2, 2019

184: Should I use a BaseActivity in my Android apps?

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