Chapter 4
Finding More Activities
In This Chapter
• Link buttons with events
• Use styles and themes that increase your app appeal
• Create option menus
• Collect user preferences
In your app journeys through the Android Market, you will undoubtedly find apps that can perform just about any task. From flashlights to scientific calculators, you will find apps that do very little and others that do everything short of making dinner. In fact, there are only two design criteria for any application: there must be something to see and something to do.
In Chapter 3, you met the first requirement by creating some visual content with buttons and text. If this were a flashlight app, the user interface and the functionality of the app could be one and the ...
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