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Android 9 Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Android 9 Development Cookbook Over 100 recipes and solutions to solve the most common problems faced by Android developers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788991216
Length 464 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Activities FREE CHAPTER 2. Layouts 3. Views, Widgets, and Styles 4. Menus and Action Mode 5. Fragments 6. Home Screen Widgets, Search, and the System UI 7. Data Storage 8. Alerts and Notifications 9. Using the Touchscreen and Sensors 10. Graphics and Animation 11. A First Look at OpenGL ES 12. Multimedia 13. Telephony, Networks, and the Web 14. Location and Using Geofencing 15. Getting Your App Ready for the Play Store 16. Getting Started with Kotlin 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using LinearLayout

Another common layout option is LinearLayout, which arranges the child Views in a single column or single row, depending on the orientation specified. The default orientation (if not specified) is vertical, which aligns the Views in a single column.

LinearLayout has a key feature not offered in RelativeLayout—the weight attribute. We can specify a layout_weight parameter when defining a View to allow the View to dynamically size based on the available space. Options include having a View fill all the remaining space (if a View has a higher weight), having multiple Views fit within the given space (if all have the same weight), or spacing the Views proportionally by their weight.

We will create LinearLayout with three EditText Views to demonstrate how the weight attribute can be used. For this example, we will use three EditText Views-one to enter...

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