Chapter 3
Understanding Android Resources
In Chapter 2, we gave you an overview of an Android application and a quick look at some of its underlying concepts. You also learned about the Android SDK, the Eclipse Android Development Tool (ADT), and how to run your applications on emulators identified by Android virtual devices (AVDs).
In this and the next few chapters, we follow that introduction with an in-depth look at Android SDK fundamentals. These fundamentals include resources, content providers, and intents.
Android relies on resources for defining UI components in a declarative manner. This declarative approach is not that dissimilar to the way HTML uses declarative tags to define its UI. In this sense, Android is forward thinking in ...
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