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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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The widget exploration app

We have just discussed six widgets – EditText, ImageView, RadioButton (and RadioGroup), Switch, CheckBox, and TextClock. Let's make a working app and do something practical with each of them. We will also use a Button widget and a TextView widget again as well.

In this layout, we will use LinearLayout as the layout type that holds everything, and within LinearLayout, we will use multiple RelativeLayout instances.

RelativeLayout has been superseded by ConstraintLayout, but they are still commonly used and are worth playing around with. You will see as you build layouts within RelativeLayout that the UI elements behave very much the same as ConstraintLayout, but that the underlying XML is different. It is not necessary ...

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