Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Updating the Layout

Here is what CrimeFragment’s view will look like by the end of this chapter.

Figure 8.1  CriminalIntent, episode 2

To get this on screen, you are going to add four widgets to CrimeFragment’s layout: two TextView widgets, a Button, and a CheckBox.

Open fragment_crime.xml and make the changes shown in Listing 8.3. You may get errors from missing string resources that you will create in a moment.

Listing 8.3  Adding new widgets (fragment_crime.xml)

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