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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
698 pages
15h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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Looking ahead at the Live Drawing app

As this app is more in-depth and needs to respond in real time, it is necessary to use a slightly more in-depth structure. At first, this may seem like a complication, but in the long run, it will make our code simpler and easier to understand.

We will have four classes in the Live Drawing app, as follows:

  • MainActivity: The Activity class provided by the Android API is the class that interacts with the operating system (OS). We have already seen how the OS interacts with onCreate when the player clicks on the app icon to start an app. Rather than have the MainActivity class that does everything, this Activity-based class will just handle the startup and shutdown of our app, and offer some assistance with initialization ...
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