Building a UI with CardView and ScrollView
Create a new project in the usual way. Name the project CardView Layout
and choose the Empty Activity project template. Leave all the rest of the settings the same as all the previous projects.
To be able to edit our theme and properly test the result, we need to generate our layout file and edit the Kotlin code to display it by calling the setContentView
function from the onCreate
function. We will design our CardView
masterpiece inside a ScrollView
layout, which, as the name suggests, allows the user to scroll through the content of the layout.
Right-click the layout
folder and select New. Notice that there is an option for Layout resource file. Select Layout resource file and you will see the New Resource ...
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