Getting your app to communicate with the outside world
Face it — the app in Chapter 5 of this minibook is boring! Really boring! Who wants to click a button to see the words Pepperoni Extra Cheese on a device’s screen?
In this chapter, you improve on the app that you created in Chapter 5. I can’t promise instant excitement, but with modest effort, you can add features to make the app more interesting. (I confess: In this chapter, the real reason for making the app interesting is to show you some additional Android developer tricks. Anyway, read on …)
Improving the Layout
In addition to being boring, the app in Chapter 5 is ugly. You can improve an app’s look in two ways — the way it looks to a user and the way it looks to another developer. In this section, you do both. When you’re done, you have a layout like the one in Figure 6-1.
Figure 6-1: Your mission, should you decide to accept it.
Before creating the layout’s code, I want to make some observations ...
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Improving the look of an app