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Mastering Android Development with Kotlin

You're reading from   Mastering Android Development with Kotlin Deep dive into the world of Android to create robust applications with Kotlin

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788473699
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Miloš Vasić Miloš Vasić
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Preface 1. Starting with Android 2. Building and Running FREE CHAPTER 3. Screens 4. Connecting Screen Flow 5. Look and Feel 6. Permissions 7. Working with Databases 8. Android Preferences 9. Concurrency in Android 10. Android Services 11. Messaging 12. Backend and API 13. Tuning Up for High Performance 14. Testing 15. Migration to Kotlin 16. Deploying Your Application

Creating View Pager


As we mentioned, we want our items to display on several pages that can be swiped. To do so, we need ViewPager. ViewPager makes it possible to swipe between different fragments as a part of the fragment collection. We will make some changes to our code. Open the activity_main layout and update it like this:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
    <LinearLayout xmlns:android=
     "http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
    android:layout_width="match_parent" 
    android:layout_height="match_parent" 
    android:orientation="vertical"> 
    <android.support.v4.view.ViewPager  xmlns:android=
    "http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
        android:id="@+id/pager" 
        android:layout_width="match_parent" 
        android:layout_height="match_parent" /> 
 
    </LinearLayout> 

Instead of FrameLayout, we put the ViewPager view. Then, open the MainActivity class and update it like this:

    class MainActivity : BaseActivity(...
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