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Android Programming for Beginners - Third Edition

By : John Horton
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Android Programming for Beginners - Third Edition

By: John Horton

Overview of this book

Do you want to make a career in programming but don’t know where to start? Do you have a great idea for an app but don't know how to make it a reality? Or are you worried that you’ll have to learn Java programming to become an Android developer? Look no further! This new and expanded third edition of Android Programming for Beginners will be your guide to creating Android applications from scratch. The book starts by introducing you to all the fundamental concepts of programming in an Android context, from the basics of Java to working with the Android API. You’ll learn with the help of examples that use up-to-date API classes and are created within Android Studio, the official Android development environment that helps supercharge your mobile application development process. After a crash course on the key programming concepts, you’ll explore Android programming and get to grips with creating applications with a professional-standard UI using fragments and storing user data with SQLite. This Android Java book also shows you how you can make your apps multilingual, draw on the screen with a finger, and work with graphics, sound, and animations. By the end of this Android programming book, you'll be ready to start building your own custom applications in Android and Java.
Table of Contents (30 chapters)

Anonymous classes

In Chapter 12, The Stack, the Heap, and the Garbage Collector, we briefly introduced anonymous classes. Here, we will discuss it in a little more detail and examine how they can help us. When a RadioButton widget is part of a RadioGroup widget, the visual appearance of them all is coordinated for us. All we need to do is react when any given RadioButton widget is pressed. Of course, as with any other button, we need to know when they have been clicked on.

A RadioButton widget 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, that is, an anonymous class, for the sole purpose of listening for clicks on the RadioGroup widget. The next block of code assumes that we have a reference to a RadioGroup widget, called radioGroup. Here is the code:

radioGroup...