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Action Bar

The document provides an overview of Android mobile app development focusing on utilizing the Action Bar, creating user interfaces programmatically, and listening for UI notifications. It outlines methods for managing the Action Bar, adding action items, and handling user interactions at both the activity and view levels. Additionally, it discusses event registration for UI components to ensure proper functionality in response to user actions.

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Action Bar

The document provides an overview of Android mobile app development focusing on utilizing the Action Bar, creating user interfaces programmatically, and listening for UI notifications. It outlines methods for managing the Action Bar, adding action items, and handling user interactions at both the activity and view levels. Additionally, it discusses event registration for UI components to ensure proper functionality in response to user actions.

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Android Mobile App

Development
Lecture :
UTILIZING THE ACTION BAR Managing

CREATING THE USER INTERFACE


PROGRAMMATICALLY
LISTENING FOR UI NOTIFICATIONS
UTILIZING THE ACTION BAR Managing
how you can programmatically hide
or display the Action Bar
Programmatically remove the Action Bar using
the ActionBar class

 First need to remove the android:theme attribute you added in the


Manifest file.
Adding Action Items to the Action Bar

 Besides displaying the application icon and the activity title on the left of
the Action Bar, you can also display additional items on the Action Bar.
These additional items are called action items.
 Action items are shortcuts to some of the commonly performed
operations in your application.
 For example, you might be building an RSS reader application, in which
case some of the action items might be “Refresh feed,” “Delete feed”
and “Add new feed.”
Method1:
 Create new project
 Create an actionbar.xml file ( for designing of action bar)
 Add actionbar.xml to activity_main.xml

 Now access widgets of action bar in java file and apply clickListener
on it.
Method 2
 Create new project
 Create Menu directory and also menu file in it and add items in
menu.xml file.
 Read menu file in MainActivity.class
Output
CREATING THE USER INTERFACE
PROGRAMMATICALLY
CREATING THE USER INTERFACE
PROGRAMMATICALLY

 Created a LayoutParams object to specify the layout parameter that can


be used by other views.
 LinearLayout object to contain all the views in your activity
LISTENING FOR UI NOTIFICATIONS

Users interact with your UI at two levels:


 activity level
 View level
At the activity level, the Activity class exposes methods that you can
override. Some common methods that you can override in your activities
include the following:
➤ onKeyDown — Called when a key was pressed and not handled by any of
the views contained within the activity
➤ onKeyUp — Called when a key was released and not handled by any of the
views contained within the activity
➤ onMenuItemSelected — Called when a panel’s menu item has been
selected by the user
➤ onMenuOpened — Called when a panel’s menu is opened by the user
Overriding Methods Defined in an
Activity
 When the activity is loaded, type some text into the EditText. Next, click
the down arrow key on the directional pad. Observe the message shown
on the screen
Registering Events for Views
 For example, when a user touches a Button view, you need to service
the event so that the appropriate action can be performed.
 If you now click either the OK button or the Cancel button, the
appropriate message will be displayed , proving that the event is wired
up properly

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