Chapter 4. Utilizing Resources and Media

In This Chapter

• Resources

• Types of Resources

• Values Resources

• Dimension Resources

• Color Resources

• Styles and Themes

• Arrays, String Arrays, and Integer Arrays

• Drawable Resources

• The Toggle Button

• Creating an Image Switcher Application

• Scrolling Through ScrollView

• Playing Audio

• Playing Video

• Displaying Progress with ProgressBar

• Using Assets

Resources include text data, bitmaps, audio, videos, and other items used by the Android application. Most commonly resources are kept separately in XML files and accessed in Java code through the IDs assigned to them. In this chapter you learn to access media too, that is, access and use images, audio, and video in Android applications. ...

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