Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Finishing the Layout

Now that you have your styles set up, you can save some serious time. Let’s flesh out the remote control interface to a full, luxurious 12-key version, complete with ten deluxe decimal digits.

Now you need to create a 3 x 4 array of nearly identical buttons. But there’s no need to code them all individually. You can create one row of three buttons and then use it four times. Create a new file called res/layout/button_row.xml and move the row of buttons you have already defined into it.

Listing 24.7  A row of three buttons (layout/button_row.xml)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TableRow xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
  <Button style="@style/RemoteButton" />
  <Button style="@style/RemoteButton" ...