Android™ for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach

5. Favorite Twitter^® Searches App: SharedPreferences, Buttons, Nested Layouts, Intents AlertDialogs, Inflating XML Layouts and the Manifest File

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll:

• Enable users to interact with an app via Buttons.

• Use a ScrollView to display objects that do not fit on the screen.

• Create GUI components dynamically in response to user interactions by inflating an XML layout.

• Store key/value pairs of data associated with an app using SharedPreferences.

• Modify key/value pairs of data associated with an app using SharedPreferences.Editor.

• Use an AlertDialog.Builder object to create AlertDialogs.

• Programmatically open a ...