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Sams Teach Yourself Android™ Application Development in 24 Hours, Second Edition
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Sams Teach Yourself Android™ Application Development in 24 Hours, Second Edition

by Lauren Darcey, Shane Conder
July 2011
Beginner to intermediate
512 pages
12h 4m
English
Sams
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Hour 9. Developing the Help and Scores Screens

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Designing and implementing the help screen

• Working with files

• Designing and implementing the scores screen

• Designing screens with tabs

• Working with XML

In this hour, you implement two more screens of the Been There, Done That! application: the help and scores screens. You begin by implementing the help screen using a TextView control with text supplied from a text file, which enables you to explore some of the file support classes of the Android SDK. Next, you design and implement the scores screen. With its more complicated requirements, the scores screen is ideal for trying out the tab set control called TabHost. Finally, you test the scores screen by parsing ...

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