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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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Examining the Age Database app

In this chapter, we will focus on creating the NavigationView and populating it with four Fragment classes and their respective layouts. In the next chapter, we will learn about, and implement, the database functionality.

Here is what our NavigationView looks like in all its glory. Note that many of the options, and most of the appearance and decoration, is provided by default when using the NavigationView Activity template:

Examining the Age Database app

The four main options are what we will add to the UI. They are Insert, Delete, Search, and Results. The layouts are shown, and their purposes described, next.

Insert

The first screen allows the user ...

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