Chapter 3
Crafting the Layout
In This Chapter
• App life cycle overview
• Designing the layout of your app
• Adding buttons and labels to your app
• Handling device rotation for your app
• Creating an app icon
Perusing the Android Market, apps vary dramatically in complexity. Google’s Shopper app sits at one end of the spectrum: a single text box and a camera icon on a plain white backdrop. Take a picture of a barcode, and you get comparison shopping results in an itemized list. At the other end of the spectrum, the Layer app takes a live video stream from the Android camera and overlays Wikipedia articles, Twitter feeds, and classified ads using GPS to find the relevant data to your location.
You probably want your first apps to be somewhere in ...
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