6. Designing an Application Framework

It’s time to put the skills you have learned so far to use and write some code. In this chapter, you design an Android application prototype—the basic framework upon which you will build a full application. Taking an iterative approach, you will add many exciting features to this application over the course of this book. So, let’s begin.

Designing an Android Trivia Game

Social trivia-style games are always popular. They are also an application category where you can, from a development perspective, explore many different features of the Android SDK. So, let’s implement a fairly simple trivia game, and by doing so, learn all about designing an application user interface, working with text and graphics, and, ...

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