75.4 Creating the AudioApp Project

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

Enter AudioApp into the Name field and specify com.ebookfrenzy.audioapp 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.

Designing the User Interface

Once the new project has been created, select the activity_main.xml file from the Project tool window and with the Layout Editor tool in Design mode, select the “Hello World!” TextView and delete it from the layout.

Drag and drop three Button views onto the layout. The positioning of the buttons is not of paramount importance to this example, though Figure 75-1 shows a suggested layout using a vertical chain.

Configure the buttons to display string resources that read Play, Record...