Pro Android with Kotlin: Developing Modern Mobile Apps

© Peter Späth 2018

Peter SpäthPro Android with Kotlinhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3820-2_9

9. User Interface

Peter Späth¹ 

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Leipzig, Germany

 

The user interface is certainly the most important part of any end-user app. For corporate usage, apps without user interfaces are possible, but even then in most cases you will have some kind of rudimentary UI, if for no other reason just to avoid the Android OS killing your app too readily during resource housekeeping tasks.

In this chapter, we will not cover the basics of UI development for Android. Instead, it is expected that you’ve read some introductory-level book or worked through the official tutorials (or any number of the other tutorials you will find on the Web). What we do here is to cover ...