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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

Make your buttons look pretty


We colored our buttons and defined states for them. We colored each state differently. We have colors for disabled state, for enabled, and pressed states. Now we will go one step further. We will make our buttons rounded and color them with a gradient instead of a solid color. We will prepare a layout for a new button style. Open the activity_todo layout and modify the buttons container:

    <LinearLayout 
      android:background="@color/grey_text_light" 
      android:layout_width="match_parent" 
      android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
      android:orientation="horizontal" 
      android:weightSum="1"> 
           
      ... 
 
     </LinearLayout> 

We set the background the same as the one we used for the edit text field. Buttons will be rounded so we want them on the same background as the rest of the screen. Now, let's define some additional dimensions and the colors we will use. We need to define the radius for a button with rounded corners...

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