In part 3 of my tutorials on layouts for Android app development I am going to cover frame layout and scroll view. Frame Layout: Frame layout is used to display a single view at a time. The view can contain many widgets but only one will appear at a time. for example we have two [...]
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Android App Development – Layouts Part Two: Table and Absolute Layouts
Table Layout: Organizing widgets in a table is a famous approach in HTML design where you construct a table of a number of rows and cells and distribute the controls over the cells to achieve a consistent look for your UI. Android provides a similar technique. In android you define the number of rows by [...]
Android App Development – Layouts Part One: Linear and Relative Layouts
The way we construct the user interface in Android is pretty interesting. You can construct the UI widgets programmatically. But Android presents a decent way to construct the UI which is XML-based layouts. The layout of an activity can be constructed by a XML file. These files are considered resources as they reside in res/layout folder. [...]
Introduction to Android App Development
Welcome to the first Android development articles on Mobile Orchard. We are going to start a series of articles to introduce you to the world of Android development. We are going to start off with the Android platform and the necessary tools to start Android development. Android Software Stack: This picture describes the Android software stack [...]
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