Views and ViewGroups
In this section, we will review the main views and ViewGroups you will use as an Android developer. You'll simply be able to use many of these components over and over and never have to worry about what goes on behind the scenes. In time, you might even begin to dabble with developing your own versions.
We will start by covering the main views in Android and then move on to ViewGroups. For each component, we will give a description, a screenshot of the view in action, and an overview of the most common view operations. As this section will largely act as a reference, if you have had prior experience of dealing with Android views you can skip to the next section, where we will show how to use these views both programmatically and through layout files.
Note
In this section, we will cover some of the most common view types used in Android development; however, by visiting the Javadoc for view, you can refer to all the known direct and indirect subclasses (http://developer...
