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Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 5th Edition
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Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 5th Edition

by Bryan Sills, Brian Gardner, Kristin Marsicano, Chris Stewart
May 2022
Intermediate to advanced
688 pages
20h 12m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Responding to Presses

As icing on the RecyclerView cake, CriminalIntent should also respond to a press on these list items. In Chapter 13, you will launch the detail view for a Crime when the user presses that Crime in the list. For now, show a Toast when the user takes action on a Crime.

As you may have noticed, RecyclerView, while powerful and capable, has precious few real responsibilities. (May it be an example to us all.) The same goes here: Handling touch events is mostly up to you. If you need them, RecyclerView can forward along raw touch events. But most of the time this is not necessary.

Instead, you can handle them like you normally do: by setting an OnClickListener. Because you want the entire row to be clickable, set ...

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ISBN: 9780137645794