Android™ How to Program, Second Edition

8.10. Wrap-Up

In this chapter, you created an Address Book app that enables users to add, view, edit and delete contact information that’s stored in a SQLite database. You defined common GUI component attribute–value pairs as XML style resources, then applied the styles to all components that share those values by using the components’ style attribute. You added a border to a TextView by specifying a Drawable as the value for the TextView’s android:background attribute and you created a custom Drawable using an XML representation of a shape. You also used Android standard icons to enhance the visual appearance of the app’s menu items.

When an Fragment’s primary task is to display a scrollable list of items, you learned that you can extend class ...