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Neil Smyth has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, including roles in software development and enterprise-level UNIX and Linux system administration. In addition to a bachelor's degree in information technology, he also holds A+, Security+, Network+, Project+, and Microsoft Certified Professional certifications and is a CIW Database Design Specialist. Neil is the co-founder and CEO of Payload Media, Inc. (a technical content publishing company), and the author of the Essentials range of programming and system administration books.
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84.6 Designing the User Interface Layout

Load the content_main.xml layout resource file into the Layout Editor tool if it has not already been loaded and, in Design mode, select and delete the nav_host_fragment_content_main object. From the Widgets section of the palette, drag and drop a WebView object onto the center of the device screen layout. Click the Infer constraints toolbar button and, using the Attributes tool window, change the layout_width and layout_height properties of the WebView to match constraint so that it fills the entire layout canvas as outlined in Figure 84-2:

Figure 84-2

Select the newly added WebView instance and change the ID of the view to myWebView.

Before proceeding to the next step of this tutorial, an additional permission needs to be added to the project to enable the WebView object to access the Internet and download a web page for printing. Add this permission by locating the AndroidManifest.xml file in the Project tool window and double...

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Neil Smyth has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, including roles in software development and enterprise-level UNIX and Linux system administration. In addition to a bachelor's degree in information technology, he also holds A+, Security+, Network+, Project+, and Microsoft Certified Professional certifications and is a CIW Database Design Specialist. Neil is the co-founder and CEO of Payload Media, Inc. (a technical content publishing company), and the author of the Essentials range of programming and system administration books.
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