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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

Wiring up the UI with the Kotlin code (part 1)


To achieve an interactive app, we will do the following three things:

  1. We will call setContentView from the onCreate function to show the progress of our UI when we run the app.

  2. We will write two more functions of our own and each one will call setContentView on a different layout (that we have yet to design).

  3. Then, later in this chapter, when we design two more UI layouts, we will be able to load them at the click of a button.

As we will be building a ConstraintLayout and a TableLayout, we will call our new functions, loadConstraintLayout and loadTableLayout, respectively.

Let's do that now, and then we'll see how we can add some buttons that call these functions alongside some neatly formatted text.

Inside the onCreate function, add the following highlighted code:

override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
   super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)

       setContentView(R.layout.main_menu)
}

The code uses the setContentView function to load...

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