49.1 Creating the CardDemo Project

Select the Create New Project quick start option from the welcome screen and, within the resulting new project dialog, choose the Basic Activity template before clicking on the Next button.

Enter CardDemo into the Name field and specify com.ebookfrenzy.carddemo as the package name. Before clicking on the Finish button, change the Minimum API level setting to API 26: Android 8.0 (Oreo) and the Language menu to Java.

Modifying the Basic Activity Project

Since the Basic Activity was selected, the layout includes a floating action button which is not required for this project. Load the activity_main.xml layout file into the Layout Editor tool, select the floating action button and tap the keyboard delete key to remove the object from the layout. Edit the MainActivity.java file and remove the floating action button code from the onCreate method as follows:

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

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