July 2011
Beginner to intermediate
512 pages
12h 4m
English
What You’ll Learn in This Hour:
• Working with activity dialogs
• Using DatePickerDialog
• Handling and formatting date information
• Building custom dialogs
In this hour, you continue to add features to the Been There, Done That! settings screen. Specifically, you learn about Android activity dialogs and implement several within the QuizSettingsActivity class. Each dialog is specially designed to collect a specific type of input from the user. First, you implement a DatePickerDialog to collect the user’s date of birth and then you build a custom dialog to enable the user to change his or her password.
There is only so much screen real estate available on a device, but ...