3.4.4. Adding the TextViews, EditText, SeekBar and LinearLayouts

You’ll now build the GUI in Fig. 3.3. You’ll start with the basic layout and views in this section. In Section 3.4.5, you’ll customize the views’ properties to complete the design. As you add each view to the GUI, immediately set its Id property using the names in Figs. 3.43.5. You can change the selected view’s Id via the Properties window or by right clicking the view (in the Graphical Layout editor or Outline window), selecting Edit ID... and changing the Id in the Rename Resource dialog that appears.

In the following steps, you’ll use the Outline window to add views to the GridLayout. When working with layouts, it can be difficult to see the layout’s nested structure and to ...

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