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Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789615401
Pages 698 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
John Horton John Horton
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Table of Contents (33) Chapters close

Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners
Contributors
Preface
1. Getting Started with Android and Kotlin 2. Kotlin, XML, and the UI Designer 3. Exploring Android Studio and the Project Structure 4. Getting Started with Layouts and Material Design 5. Beautiful Layouts with CardView and ScrollView 6. The Android Lifecycle 7. Kotlin Variables, Operators, and Expressions 8. Kotlin Decisions and Loops 9. Kotlin Functions 10. Object-Oriented Programming 11. Inheritance in Kotlin 12. Connecting Our Kotlin to the UI and Nullability 13. Bringing Android Widgets to Life 14. Android Dialog Windows 15. Handling Data and Generating Random Numbers 16. Adapters and Recyclers 17. Data Persistence and Sharing 18. Localization 19. Animations and Interpolations 20. Drawing Graphics 21. Threads and Starting the Live Drawing App 22. Particle Systems and Handling Screen Touches 23. Android Sound Effects and the Spinner Widget 24. Design Patterns, Multiple Layouts, and Fragments 25. Advanced UI with Paging and Swiping 26. Advanced UI with Navigation Drawer and Fragment 27. Android Databases 28. A Quick Chat Before You Go Other Book You May Enjoy Index

Running the Widget Exploration app


Try checking the radio buttons to see the time zone change on the clock. In the following image, I have photoshopped a few cropped screenshots to show that the time changes when a new time zone is selected:

Enter different values into the EditText widget, and then click the button to see it grab the text and display it on itself, as demonstrated in the screenshot at the start of this tutorial.

Change what the image in the app looks like with different combinations of checked and unchecked checkboxes and hide and show the TextView widget by using the Switch widget above it. The following screenshot displays two combinations of the checkboxes and the switch widget photoshopped together for demonstration purposes:

Note

Transparency doesn't show very clearly in a print book, so I didn't check that box. Be sure to try this out on an emulator or real device.

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