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Hands-On Android UI Development
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Hands-On Android UI Development

by Jason Morris
November 2017
Beginner to intermediate
348 pages
7h 57m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating the Overview activity

The travel claim example app needs a nice overview activity to tie together the allowance overview, a list of the claim items, and a way for the user to create new claim items. As we have a Room database, things can become significantly more decoupled, and that's a really good thing. Having a central reactive source of data allows different parts of your application to always reflect the actual state of the application as it changes, without having to coordinate with each other.

The first part of building the OverviewActivity is creating the Activity class itself and populating it with the claim items that the user has entered. Follow these steps to create a skeleton OverviewActivity and register it as the main ...

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