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Java 9 Programming Blueprints

By : Jason Lee
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Java 9 Programming Blueprints

By: Jason Lee

Overview of this book

Java is a powerful language that has applications in a wide variety of fields. From playing games on your computer to performing banking transactions, Java is at the heart of everything. The book starts by unveiling the new features of Java 9 and quickly walks you through the building blocks that form the basis of writing applications. There are 10 comprehensive projects in the book that will showcase the various features of Java 9. You will learn to build an email filter that separates spam messages from all your inboxes, a social media aggregator app that will help you efficiently track various feeds, and a microservice for a client/server note application, to name a few. The book covers various libraries and frameworks in these projects, and also introduces a few more frameworks that complement and extend the Java SDK. Through the course of building applications, this book will not only help you get to grips with the various features of Java 9, but will also teach you how to design and prototype professional-grade applications with performance and security considerations.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
9
Taking Notes with Monumentum

Building the user interface


Put simply, Android user interfaces are based on Activities, which use layout files to describe the structure of the user interface. There's more to it, of course, but this simple definition should be sufficient for our work on Sunago. Let's start, then, by looking at our Activity, MainActivity, which is as follows:

    public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity { 
      @Override 
      protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { 
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); 
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); 
        Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar); 
        setSupportActionBar(toolbar); 
 
        FloatingActionButton fab =
            (FloatingActionButton) findViewById(R.id.fab); 
        fab.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { 
            @Override 
            public void onClick(View view) { 
                Snackbar.make(view,
                        "Replace with your own action",
   ...