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Android Studio 4.2 Development Essentials - Kotlin Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803231549
Pages 804 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Neil Smyth Neil Smyth
Profile icon Neil Smyth

Table of Contents (94) Chapters

1. Introduction 2. Setting up an Android Studio Development Environment 3. Creating an Example Android App in Android Studio 4. Creating an Android Virtual Device (AVD) in Android Studio 5. Using and Configuring the Android Studio AVD Emulator 6. A Tour of the Android Studio User Interface 7. Testing Android Studio Apps on a Physical Android Device 8. The Basics of the Android Studio Code Editor 9. An Overview of the Android Architecture 10. The Anatomy of an Android Application 11. An Introduction to Kotlin 12. Kotlin Data Types,Variables and Nullability 13. Kotlin Operators and Expressions 14. Kotlin Flow Control 15. An Overview of Kotlin Functions and Lambdas 16. The Basics of Object Oriented Programming in Kotlin 17. An Introduction to Kotlin Inheritance and Subclassing 18. An Overview of Android View Binding 19. Understanding Android Application and Activity Lifecycles 20. Handling Android Activity State Changes 21. Android Activity State Changes by Example 22. Saving and Restoring the State of an Android Activity 23. Understanding Android Views, View Groups and Layouts 24. A Guide to the Android Studio Layout Editor Tool 25. A Guide to the Android ConstraintLayout 26. A Guide to Using ConstraintLayout in Android Studio 27. Working with ConstraintLayout Chains and Ratios in Android Studio 28. An Android Studio Layout Editor ConstraintLayout Tutorial 29. Manual XML Layout Design in Android Studio 30. Managing Constraints using Constraint Sets 31. An Android ConstraintSet Tutorial 32. A Guide to using Apply Changes in Android Studio 33. An Overview and Example of Android Event Handling 34. Android Touch and Multi-touch Event Handling 35. Detecting Common Gestures Using the Android Gesture Detector Class 36. Implementing Custom Gesture and Pinch Recognition on Android 37. An Introduction to Android Fragments 38. Using Fragments in Android Studio - An Example 39. Modern Android App Architecture with Jetpack 40. An Android Jetpack ViewModel Tutorial 41. An Android Jetpack LiveData Tutorial 42. An Overview of Android Jetpack Data Binding 43. An Android Jetpack Data Binding Tutorial 44. An Android ViewModel Saved State Tutorial 45. Working with Android Lifecycle-Aware Components 46. An Android Jetpack Lifecycle Awareness Tutorial 47. An Overview of the Navigation Architecture Component 48. An Android Jetpack Navigation Component Tutorial 49. An Introduction to MotionLayout 50. An Android MotionLayout Editor Tutorial 51. A MotionLayout KeyCycle Tutorial 52. Working with the Floating Action Button and Snackbar 53. Creating a Tabbed Interface using the TabLayout Component 54. Working with the RecyclerView and CardView Widgets 55. An Android RecyclerView and CardView Tutorial 56. A Layout Editor Sample Data Tutorial 57. Working with the AppBar and Collapsing Toolbar Layouts 58. An Android Studio Primary/Detail Flow Tutorial 59. An Overview of Android Intents 60. Android Explicit Intents – A Worked Example 61. Android Implicit Intents – A Worked Example 62. Android Broadcast Intents and Broadcast Receivers 63. An Introduction to Kotlin Coroutines 64. An Android Kotlin Coroutines Tutorial 65. An Overview of Android Services 66. Implementing an Android Started Service – A Worked Example 67. Android Local Bound Services – A Worked Example 68. Android Remote Bound Services – A Worked Example 69. An Android Notifications Tutorial 70. An Android Direct Reply Notification Tutorial 71. Foldable Devices and Multi-Window Support 72. An Overview of Android SQLite Databases 73. The Android Room Persistence Library 74. An Android TableLayout and TableRow Tutorial 75. An Android Room Database and Repository Tutorial 76. Accessing Cloud Storage using the Android Storage Access Framework 77. An Android Storage Access Framework Example 78. Video Playback on Android using the VideoView and MediaController Classes 79. Android Picture-in-Picture Mode 80. An Android Picture-in-Picture Tutorial 81. Making Runtime Permission Requests in Android 82. Android Audio Recording and Playback using MediaPlayer and MediaRecorder 83. Printing with the Android Printing Framework 84. An Android HTML and Web Content Printing Example 85. A Guide to Android Custom Document Printing 86. An Introduction to Android App Links 87. An Android Studio App Links Tutorial 88. A Guide to the Android Studio Profiler 89. An Android Biometric Authentication Tutorial 90. Creating, Testing and Uploading an Android App Bundle 91. An Overview of Android Dynamic Feature Modules 92. An Android Studio Dynamic Feature Tutorial 93. An Overview of Gradle in Android Studio Index

28.3 Preparing the Layout Editor Environment

Locate and double-click on the activity_main.xml layout file located in the app -> res -> layout folder to load it into the Layout Editor tool. Since the purpose of this tutorial is to gain experience with the use of constraints, turn off the Autoconnect feature using the button located in the Layout Editor toolbar. Once disabled, the button will appear with a line through it as is the case in Figure 28-2:

Figure 28-2

If the default margin value to the right of the Autoconnect button is not set to 8dp, click on it and select 8dp from the resulting panel.

The user interface design will also make use of the ImageView object to display an image. Before proceeding, this image should be added to the project ready for use later in the chapter. This file is named galaxys6.png and can be found in the project_icons folder of the sample code download available from the following URL:

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