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Hands-On Android UI Development

You're reading from   Hands-On Android UI Development Design and develop attractive user interfaces for Android applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788475051
Length 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jason Morris Jason Morris
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Preface 1. Creating Android Layouts 2. Designing Form Screens FREE CHAPTER 3. Taking Actions 4. Composing User Interfaces 5. Binding Data to Widgets 6. Storing and Retrieving Data 7. Creating Overview Screens 8. Designing Material Layouts 9. Navigating Effectively 10. Making Overviews Even Better 11. Polishing Your Design 12. Customizing Widgets and Layouts 13. Activity Lifecycle
14. Test Your Knowledge Answers

Wrapping up the category picker


The category picker you created for the CaptureClaimActivity is just a group of widgets in a card right now, and while it's one of the simplest cards to use on the screen, it's also one of the largest by the amount of code written for it. The best way to encapsulate this part of the screen is to move the layout that appears inside the CardView into a Fragment class.

However, why a Fragment class, and why not write another Layout class? Fragment classes are self-contained systems, and have their own life cycle within the context of their parent Activity. This means they can contain significantly more application logic, and can be reused more easily in other parts of the application. It's also because in this case, we rely on the IDs of the radio buttons to know what has been checked by the user, which means that we can very easily start polluting layouts with IDs specific to this specific widget. Fragment classes don't stop this from happening, but it's expected...

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