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Android Programming for Beginners - Second Edition

By : John Horton
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Android Programming for Beginners - Second Edition

By: John Horton

Overview of this book

Are you trying to start a career in programming, but haven't found the right way in? Do you have a great idea for an app, but don't know how to make it a reality? Or maybe you're just frustrated that in order to learn Android, you must know Java. If so, then this book is for you. This new and expanded second edition of Android Programming for Beginners will be your companion to create Android Pie applications from scratch. We will introduce you to all the fundamental concepts of programming in an Android context, from the basics of Java to working with the Android API. All examples use the up-to-date API classes, and are created from within Android Studio, the official Android development environment that helps supercharge your application development process. After this crash course, we'll dive deeper into Android programming and you'll learn how to create applications with a professional-standard UI through fragments and store your user's data with SQLite. In addition, you'll see how to make your apps multilingual, draw to the screen with a finger, and work with graphics, sound, and animations too. By the end of this book, you'll be ready to start building your own custom applications in Android and Java.
Table of Contents (35 chapters)
Android Programming for Beginners - Second Edition
Contributors
Preface
Other Books You May Enjoy
Index

Anonymous classes


In the last chapter, we briefly introduced anonymous classes. Here, we will learn a little more about them and see how they can help us. When a RadioButton is part of a RadioGroup, the visual appearance of them all is coordinated for us. All we need to do is react when any given RadioButton is pressed. Of course, as with any other button, we need to know when they have been clicked.

A RadioButton behaves differently to a regular Button, and simply listening for clicks in onClick (after implementing OnClickListener) will not work because RadioButton is not designed that way.

What we need to do is use another Java feature. We need to implement a class, an anonymous class, for the sole purpose of listening for clicks on the RadioGroup. The following block of code assumes that we have a reference to a RadioGroup called radioGroup. Here is the code:

radioGroup.setOnCheckedChangeListener(
   new RadioGroup.OnCheckedChangeListener() {
   
         @Override
         public void...