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Android Studio 4.1 Development Essentials – Java Edition

By : Neil Smyth
Book Image

Android Studio 4.1 Development Essentials – Java Edition

By: Neil Smyth

Overview of this book

For developers, Android 11 has a ton of new capabilities. The goal of this book is to teach the skills necessary to develop Android-based applications using the Java programming language. This book begins with the steps necessary to set up an Android development and testing environment. An overview of Android Studio along with the architecture of Android is covered next, followed by an in-depth look at the design of Android applications and user interfaces using the Android Studio environment. You will also learn about the Android architecture components along with some advanced topics such as touch screen handling, gesture recognition, the recording and playback of audio, app links, dynamic delivery, the AndroidStudio profiler, Gradle build configuration, and submitting apps to the Google Play Developer Console. The concepts of material design, including the use of floating action buttons, Snackbars, tabbed interfaces, card views, navigation drawers, and collapsing toolbars are a highlight of this book. This edition of the book also covers printing, transitions, and cloud-based file storage; the foldable device support is the cherry on the cake. By the end of this course, you will be able to develop Android 11 Apps using Android Studio 4.1, Java, and Android Jetpack. The code files for the book can be found here: https://www.ebookfrenzy.com/retail/androidstudio41/index.php
Table of Contents (88 chapters)
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Index

41.6 Designing the Destination Fragment Layouts

Before adding actions to navigate between destinations now is a good time to add some user interface components to the two destination fragments in the graph. Begin by double-clicking on the mainFragment destination so that the main_fragment.xml file loads into the layout editor. Select and delete the current TextView widget, then drag and drop Button and Plain Text EditText widgets onto the layout so that it resembles that shown in Figure 41-10 below:

Figure 41-10

Once the views are correctly positioned, click on the Infer constraints button in the toolbar to add any missing constraints to the layout. Select the EditText view and use the Attributes tool window to delete the default “Name” text and to change the ID of the widget to userText.

Return to the navigation_graph.xml file and double-click on the secondFragment destination to load the fragment_second.xml file into the layout editor, then select and delete...