Android How to Program, 3/e

I GUI Components and Event Handling

Objectives

In this appendix you’ll learn:

• How to use Java’s cross-platform Nimbus look-and-feel.

• To build GUIs and handle events generated by user interactions with GUIs.

• To use nested classes and anonymous inner classes to implement event handlers.

Outline

1. I.1 Introduction

2. I.2 Nimbus Look-and-Feel

3. I.3 Text Fields and an Introduction to Event Handling with Nested Classes

4. I.4 Common GUI Event Types and Listener Interfaces

5. I.5 How Event Handling Works

6. I.6 JButton

7. I.7 JComboBox; Using an Anonymous Inner Class for Event Handling

8. I.8 Adapter Classes

9. I.9 Wrap-Up

1. Self-Review Exercises

2. Answers to Self-Review Exercises

3. Exercises