July 2011
Beginner to intermediate
512 pages
12h 4m
English
What You’ll Learn in This Hour:
• Designing the main menu screen
• Implementing the main menu screen layout
• Working with ListView controls
• Working with other menu types
In this hour, you learn about some of the different menu mechanisms available in Android. You begin by implementing the main menu screen of the Been There, Done That! application, using new layout controls, such as RelativeLayout. You also learn about a powerful control called a ListView, which is used to provide variable length scrolling list of items with individual click actions. Finally, you learn about other special types of menus available for use in your applications, such as the options menu.