Creating BeatBox
Time to get started. The first step is to create your BeatBox app.
In Android Studio, select File → New → New Project... to create a new project. Start with the Empty Activity option for Phone and Tablet. Call this app BeatBox and give it a package name of com.bignerdranch.android.beatbox. Select the option to Use AndroidX artifacts and leave the rest of the defaults as they are.
The activity will display a grid of buttons in a RecyclerView.
Add the androidx.recyclerview:recyclerview:1.0.0 dependency to your app/build.gradle file (do not forget to sync the file).
Replace the autogenerated contents of res/layout/activity_main.xml with a single RecyclerView.
Listing 19.1 Updating the layout file for MainActivity ...
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