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Hands-On Android UI Development

You're reading from Hands-On Android UI Development Design and develop attractive user interfaces for Android applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788475051

Length 348 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Android

Concepts

Android Development

Author (1):

Jason Morris

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

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Preface

1. Creating Android Layouts FREE CHAPTER

2. Designing Form Screens

3. Taking Actions

4. Composing User Interfaces

5. Binding Data to Widgets

6. Storing and Retrieving Data

7. Creating Overview Screens

8. Designing Material Layouts

9. Navigating Effectively

10. Making Overviews Even Better

11. Polishing Your Design

12. Customizing Widgets and Layouts

13. Activity Lifecycle

14. Test Your Knowledge Answers

Test your knowledge

Android's data binding framework follows what sort of binding?
- Model-View View-Model (bidirectional) binding
- Model-View-Presenter pattern
- Model-View (unidirectional) binding
Data Bound Layouts have variables that must be which of the following?
- Any Java Object
- Observable by the data binding framework
- Presenter objects
- Model objects

Which of the following features belongs to data binding expressions?
- They must be written in single quotes
- They are Java expressions
- They are a special expression language
- They're only evaluated at runtime
To trigger an update of a data-bound user interface, you must do which of these?
- Listen for object model changes with an event bus
- Extend the PropertyChangeCallback class
- Call refresh on the generated Binding object
- Make a change that the Binding object can observe

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Authors (1)

Jason Morris

Jason Morris

Jason Morris has been developing software for as long as he can remember. He's written software for the desktop, the server, for feature phones and for smart phones. He's written in many languages, and deployed in a variety of countries. Jason loves a good programming challenge, and when he's not writing code, or spending time with his family, taking photo's or camping: he's probably thinking about programming. In 2010 / 2011 he wrote Android User Interface Development: A Beginners Guide, which helped many beginner Android developers take their first steps into the realm of User Interface design and development for mobile devices.

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