11. An Overview of Android View Binding
An important part of developing Android apps involves the interaction between the code and the views that make up the user interface layouts. This chapter will look at the options available for gaining access to layout views in code with a particular emphasis on an option introduced with Android Studio 3.6 known as view binding. Once the basics of view bindings have been covered, the chapter will outline the changes necessary to convert the AndroidSample project to use this approach.
11.1 Find View by ID
As outlined in the chapter entitled “The Anatomy of an Android Application”, all of the resources that make up an application are compiled into a class named R. Amongst those resources are those that define ...
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