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Hands-On Android UI Development

You're reading from  Hands-On Android UI Development

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788475051
Pages 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Jason Morris Jason Morris
Profile icon Jason Morris

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Customer Feedback
Preface
Creating Android Layouts Designing Form Screens Taking Actions Composing User Interfaces Binding Data to Widgets Storing and Retrieving Data Creating Overview Screens Designing Material Layouts Navigating Effectively Making Overviews Even Better Polishing Your Design Customizing Widgets and Layouts Activity Lifecycle
Test Your Knowledge Answers

Creating the DatePickerLayout


Each of these areas can easily be encapsulated in a Java class and reused elsewhere in your application. In Chapter 3, Taking Actions, you wrote the DatePickerWrapper class, which can turn any TextView widget into a date selection widget. However, DatePickerWrapper doesn't create the TextView label or change the styling of the widgets to look like TextInputLayout. This means that you need to copy that styling into each layout where you want a date-picker, which can quickly lead to inconsistencies in your user interface. While it's good to have the events and state decoupled from the display logic, it would also be nice to have them grouped together in a single structure that can be reused without every layout having to specify the date picker widgets by hand, and then bind them to the DatePickerWrapper in its code.

While it's not obvious at first, the Android layout XML files can reference any View class and not just those defined in the core and support packages...

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