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SWE2008 ANDROID

PROGRAMMING
Module – 3
Android User Interface Design Essentials
Introduction
• The Android View

• The Android Controls

• The Android Layout


Displaying Text to Users with TextView
• One of the most basic user interface elements, or controls, in the
Android SDK is the TextView control
• TextView control is a child control within other screen elements and
controls
• with most of the user interface elements, it is derived from View and
is within the android.widget package
• To display this TextView on the screen, all your Activity needs to do
is call the set ContentView() method
• Change the text displayed programmatically by calling the setText()
method on the TextView object
Configuring Layout and Sizing

• Creating Contextual Links in Text


• Retrieving Data from Users with Text Fields
• Retrieving Text Input Using EditText Controls
• Constraining User Input with Input Filters
Designing with Layouts
• Creating User Interfaces in Android
Application user interfaces can be simple or complex, involving many
different screens
The term layout is used for two different but related purposes in
Android user interface design
In terms of resources, the /res/layout directory contains XML resource
definitions often called layout resource files
These XML files provide a template for how to draw controls on the
screen, layout resource files may contain any number of controls
The term is also used to refer to a set of ViewGroup classes, such as
LinearLayout, FrameLayout, TableLayout, RelativeLayout, and
GridLayout
Designing with Layouts
• Creating Layouts Using XML Resources
• Creating Layouts Programmatically
Partitioning the User Interface with Fragments

• In Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), the concept of a user interface


component called a Fragment was introduced
• Fragments decouple user interface behavior from a specific Activity
lifecycle
• Fragments were added to the Android SDK at a crucial time when
consumers were experiencing an explosion in the variety of Android
devices coming to market
Defining Fragments
• Fragment implementations that have been defined as regular classes
within your applica tion can be added to your layout resource files by
using the XML tag
• This tag has a few important attri butes. Specifically, you will need to
set the android:name attribute of the fragment to the fully qualified
Fragment class name

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