Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners

The Note to self app

Welcome to the first of the multi-chapter apps that we will implement in this book. When we do these projects, we will do them more professionally than we do the smaller apps. In this project, we will use String resources instead of hardcoding the text in the layouts.

Sometimes, these things can be overkill when you are trying to learn a new Android or Kotlin topic, but they are useful and important to start using as soon as possible in real projects. They soon become like second nature and the quality of our apps will benefit from it.

Using String resources

In Chapter 3, Exploring Android Studio and the Project Structure, we discussed using String resources instead of hardcoding text in our layout files. There were a few benefits ...