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Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners
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Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners

by John Horton
April 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
698 pages
15h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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Exploring the project's Kotlin code and the main layout's XML code

We are going to look at the resource files containing the code that defines our simple UI layout and the file that has our Kotlin code. At this stage, we won't try to understand it all, as we need to learn some more basics before it makes sense to do so. What we will see, however, is the basic content and structure of both files, so we can reconcile their content with what we already know about Android resources and Kotlin.

Examining the MainActivity.kt file

Let's take a look at the Kotlin code first. You can see this code by left-clicking on the MainActivity.kt tab, as shown in the following screenshot:

As we are not looking at the intricate details of the code, an annotated screenshot ...

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