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Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners
book

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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Project Explorer and project anatomy

When we create a new Android project, we most often do so with a project template, just as we did in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Android and Kotlin. The template that we use determines the exact selection and contents of the files that Android Studio will generate. While there are big similarities across all projects that are worth noting, seeing the differences can also help. Let's build two different template projects and examine the files, their contents, and how they are all linked together through the code (XML and Kotlin).

The Empty Activity project

The simplest project type with an autogenerated UI is the Empty Activity project. Here, the UI is empty, but it is ready to be added to. It is also possible ...

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