76.5 Designing the User Interface Layout

Load the content_main.xml layout resource file into the Layout Editor tool if it has not already been loaded and, in Design mode, select and delete the “Hello World!” TextView object. From the Widgets section of the palette, drag and drop a WebView object onto the center of the device screen layout. Using the Attributes tool window, change the layout_width and layout_height properties of the WebView to match_constraint so that it fills the entire layout canvas as outlined in Figure 76-2:

Figure 76-2

Select the newly added WebView instance and change the ID of the view to myWebView.

Before proceeding to the next step of this tutorial, an additional permission needs to be added to the project to enable the WebView object to access the internet and download a web page for printing. Add this permission by locating the AndroidManifest.xml file in the Project tool window and double-clicking on it to load it into the editing...