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Android User Interface Design: Implementing Material Design for Developers, Second Edition
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Android User Interface Design: Implementing Material Design for Developers, Second Edition

by Ian G. Clifton
November 2015
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
15h 6m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 3. Creating Full Layouts With View Groups and Fragments

The previous chapter focused on the various views available for you to use. In this chapter you will learn how to bring those views together into one layout and how to use the Fragment class to inflate and interact with those layouts. You will also learn about the variety of view groups available for you to combine views as needed.

Understanding ViewGroup and the Common Implementations

As mentioned in Chapter 2, “Understanding Views—The UI Building Blocks,” the ViewGroup class is for views that can contain one or more child views. ViewGroup provides the standardized methods for these classes to use so that they can perform tasks such as adding, removing, getting, and counting child ...

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