What is Activity and Activity LifeCycle in Android

Activity in android is for GUI . If user want to use Textview, button , edit text and other ui component in android app then user has to use activity .
Activity represents user  interface .

Activity LifeCycle :
Following is the flow of activity .

OnCreate
OnStart
OnResume
OnPause
OnStop
OnDestroy

OnCreate :
This is the first method call when the system create activity . In this method , we initialize the objects or any other things which only happen once in the entire lifecycle of activity .

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { 
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); 
    setContentView(R.layout.main_activity);
 }

we have to call super method in onCreate . SetContentView is used to set layout of particular activity .

Basic Building Blocks of Android

Building Blocks in Android are :

1. Activities
2. Services 

Background Image Size in Android

Background Image Size :

Background image size for image is different for a different resolution . If a have hdpi screen, the size of image is different for a mdpi screen , xxhdpi screen and

Icon Size in Android

For  Launcher icons :

48 × 48 (mdpi)
72 × 72 (hdpi)
96 × 96 (xhdpi)

Whats New in Android N

Features :

Constraint Layout : Its an Unbundled Library which we can integrate in our app without updating or upgrading android framework .