Summary
In this chapter, we built aesthetically pleasing CardView layouts and put them in a ScrollView so the user can swipe through the contents of the layout a bit like browsing a web page. To finish the chapter off, we launched a tablet emulator and saw that we are going to need to get smart with how we design our layouts if we want to cater to different device sizes and orientations. In Chapter 24, Design Patterns, Multiple Layouts, and Fragments, we will begin to take our layouts to the next level and learn how to cope with such a diverse array of devices using fragments.
Before we do, however, it will serve us well to learn more Java and how we can use it to control our UI and interact with the user. That will be the focus of the next seven chapters.
Of course, the elephant in the room at this point is that despite learning a lot about layouts, project structure, the connection between Java and XML, and much more besides, our UIs, no matter how pretty, don't actually...