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Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789615401
Pages 698 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
John Horton John Horton
Profile icon John Horton

Table of Contents (33) Chapters

Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners
Contributors
Preface
1. Getting Started with Android and Kotlin 2. Kotlin, XML, and the UI Designer 3. Exploring Android Studio and the Project Structure 4. Getting Started with Layouts and Material Design 5. Beautiful Layouts with CardView and ScrollView 6. The Android Lifecycle 7. Kotlin Variables, Operators, and Expressions 8. Kotlin Decisions and Loops 9. Kotlin Functions 10. Object-Oriented Programming 11. Inheritance in Kotlin 12. Connecting Our Kotlin to the UI and Nullability 13. Bringing Android Widgets to Life 14. Android Dialog Windows 15. Handling Data and Generating Random Numbers 16. Adapters and Recyclers 17. Data Persistence and Sharing 18. Localization 19. Animations and Interpolations 20. Drawing Graphics 21. Threads and Starting the Live Drawing App 22. Particle Systems and Handling Screen Touches 23. Android Sound Effects and the Spinner Widget 24. Design Patterns, Multiple Layouts, and Fragments 25. Advanced UI with Paging and Swiping 26. Advanced UI with Navigation Drawer and Fragment 27. Android Databases 28. A Quick Chat Before You Go Other Book You May Enjoy Index

Coding the widget exploration app


The first part of the Kotlin code that we need to change is to make sure that our new layout is displayed. We can do so by changing the call to the setContentView function in the onCreate function to look like this:

setContentView(R.layout.exploration_layout)

There are many import statements that are needed for this app, so let's add them all up front to save us from having to keep mentioning them as we proceed. Add the following import statements:

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity
import android.graphics.Color
import android.os.Bundle
import android.view.View
import android.widget.CompoundButton
import android.widget.RadioButton
import kotlinx.android.synthetic.main.exploration_layout.*

The preceding code also includes the …exploration_layout.* code (as highlighted in the preceding code) to automatically enable us to use the id attributes that we have just configured as the instance names in our Kotlin code. This saves us from using the findViewByID...

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