Android How to Program, 3/e

I.2 Nimbus Look-and-Feel

In our screen captures, we use Java’s elegant Nimbus cross-platform look-and-feel. There are three ways that you can use Nimbus:

1. Set it as the default for all Java apps that run on your computer.

2. Set it as the look-and-feel at the time that you launch an app by passing a command-line argument to the java command.

3. Set it as the look-and-feel programatically in your app.

We set Nimbus as the default for all Java apps. To do so, you must create a text file named swing.properties in the lib folder of both your JDK installation folder and your JRE installation folder. Place the following line of code in the file:

swing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.NimbusLookAndFeel

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