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Taking user inputs

There are multiple ways in which you can take inputs from your Android device. Here are a few ways:

UI buttons: Buttons drawn on your app's UI
Hardware buttons: The keys on your Android device
Touch screen inputs: Touches mapped based on the screen coordinates
Accelerometer readings: Motion sensor readings

We will be taking a look at each of these input types. So, let's start with the very first type of input, UI buttons.

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