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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

Android adapters

To present content on our main screen, we will use the Android Adapter class. The Android Framework offers adapters as a mechanism to provide items to view groups as lists or grids. To show an example of Adapter usage, we will define our own adapter implementation. Create a new package called adapter and an EntryAdapter member class extending the BaseAdapter class:

    package com.journaler.adapter 
 
    import android.annotation.SuppressLint 
    import android.content.Context 
    import android.view.LayoutInflater 
    import android.view.View 
    import android.view.ViewGroup 
    import android.widget.BaseAdapter 
    import android.widget.TextView 
    import com.journaler.R 
    import com.journaler.model.Entry 
 
    class EntryAdapter( 
        private val ctx: Context, 
        private val items: List<Entry> 
    ) : BaseAdapter() { 
 
    @SuppressLint...
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