Summary

Remember that the goal of this chapter was familiarization with the system/structure of Android/an Android project? Android projects are a sometimes-complex interweaving of Java and a multitude of resource files. Resource files can contain XML to describe our layouts, textual content, styles, and colors, as well as images. Resources can be produced to target different languages and regions of the world. Other resource types that we will see and use throughout the book include themes and sound effects.

It is not important to remember all the different ways in which different resource files and Java files are interconnected. It is only important to realize that they are, and be able to examine files of various types and realize when they are dependent on code in another file. Whenever we create connections from our Java code to the XML code, I will always point out details of the connection again.

We do not need to learn XML as well as Java, but we will become a little...