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Android Studio 3.5 Development Essentials - Java Edition

By : Neil Smyth
Book Image

Android Studio 3.5 Development Essentials - Java Edition

By: Neil Smyth

Overview of this book

Android applications have become an important part of our daily lives and lots of effort goes into developing an Android application. This book will help you to build you own Android applications using Java. Android Studio 3.5 Development Essentials – Java Edition first teaches you to install Android development and test environment on different operating systems. Next, you will create an Android app and a virtual device in Android Studio, and install an Android application on emulator. You will test apps on physical Android devices, then study Android Studio code editor and constraint layout, Android architecture, the anatomy of an Android app, and Android activity state changes. The book then covers advanced topics such as views and widgets implementation, multi-window support integration, and biometric authentication, and finally, you will learn to upload your app to Google Play console and handle the build process with Gradle. By the end of this book, you will have gained enough knowledge to develop powerful Android applications using Java.
Table of Contents (86 chapters)
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30.4 Creating the First Fragment Class

In addition to a user interface layout, a fragment also needs to have a class associated with it to do the actual work behind the scenes. Add a class for this purpose to the project by unfolding the app -> java folder in the Project tool window and right-clicking on the package name given to the project when it was created (in this instance com.ebookfrenzy.fragmentexample). From the resulting menu, select the New -> Java Class option. In the resulting Create New Class dialog, name the class ToolbarFragment and click on OK to create the new class.

Once the class has been created it should, by default, appear in the editing panel where it will read as follows:

package com.ebookfrenzy.fragmentexample;

 

 

public class ToolbarFragment {

}

For the time being, the only changes to this class are the addition of some import directives and the overriding of the onCreateView() method to make sure the layout file is inflated...