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Android Programming for Beginners

You're reading from   Android Programming for Beginners Learn all the Java and Android skills you need to start making powerful mobile applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785883262
Length 698 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paresh Mayani Paresh Mayani
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Table of Contents (32) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The First App FREE CHAPTER 2. Java – First Contact 3. Exploring Android Studio 4. Designing Layouts 5. Real-World Layouts 6. The Life and Times of an Android App 7. Coding in Java Part 1 – Variables, Decisions, and Loops 8. Coding in Java Part 2 – Methods 9. Object-Oriented Programming 10. Everything's a Class 11. Widget Mania 12. Having a Dialogue with the User 13. Handling and Displaying Arrays of Data 14. Handling and Displaying Notes in Note To Self 15. Android Intent and Persistence 16. UI Animations 17. Sound FX and Supporting Different Versions of Android 18. Design Patterns, Fragments, and the Real World 19. Using Multiple Fragments 20. Paging and Swiping 21. Navigation Drawer and Where It's Snap 22. Capturing Images 23. Using SQLite Databases in Our Apps 24. Adding a Database to Where It's Snap 25. Integrating Google Maps and GPS Locations 26. Upgrading SQLite – Adding Locations and Maps 27. Going Local – Hola! 28. Threads, Touches, Drawing, and a Simple Game 29. Publishing Apps 30. Before You Go Index

Building a Fragment pager/slider app

We can put complete Fragments as pages in PagerAdapter. This is quite powerful because as we know, a Fragment can have a lot of functionality, even a full-fledged UI.

To keep the code short and straightforward, we will add a single TextView to each Fragment layout, just to demonstrate that the pager is working. When we see how easy it is to get a reference to TextView, however, it should be clear as to how we could easily add any layout that we have learned about so far and then let the user interact with it.

The first thing we will do is build the content for the slider. In this case, of course, the content is Fragment. We will build one simple class called SimpleFragment and one really simple layout called fragment_layout.

This implies that each slide will be identical in appearance, but we will use the Fragment ID passed in by FragmentManager at the instantiation as the text for the one and only TextView. This way, when we flip/swipe through Fragments...

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