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Java 9 Programming Blueprints

You're reading from   Java 9 Programming Blueprints Master features like modular programming, Java HTTP 2.0, and REPL by building numerous applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460196
Length 466 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jason Lee Jason Lee
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Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing Processes in Java 3. Duplicate File Finder 4. Date Calculator 5. Sunago - A Social Media Aggregator 6. Sunago - An Android Port 7. Email and Spam Management with MailFilter 8. Photo Management with PhotoBeans 9. Taking Notes with Monumentum 10. Serverless Java 11. DeskDroid - A Desktop Client for Your Android Phone 12. What is Next?

Building the user interface


Put simply, Android user interfaces are based on Activities, which use layout files to describe the structure of the user interface. There's more to it, of course, but this simple definition should be sufficient for our work on Sunago. Let's start, then, by looking at our Activity, MainActivity, which is as follows:

    public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity { 
      @Override 
      protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { 
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); 
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); 
        Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar); 
        setSupportActionBar(toolbar); 
 
        FloatingActionButton fab =
            (FloatingActionButton) findViewById(R.id.fab); 
        fab.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { 
            @Override 
            public void onClick(View view) { 
                Snackbar.make(view,
                        "Replace with your own action",
   ...
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