3.3.4. Creating and Customizing the GUI with the Graphical Layout Editor and the Outline and Properties Windows
You’ll create TextViews, an EditText and a SeekBar using the IDE’s Graphical Layout editor (that you used in Chapter 2) and Outline window, then customize them with the IDE’s Properties window—which is displayed at the bottom of the Outline window when you’re editing a GUI in the Graphical Layout editor. You’ll do this without directly manipulating the XML stored in the files of the project’s res folder.
An EditText—often called a text box or text field in other GUI technologies—is a subclass of TextView (presented in Chapter 2) that can display text and accept text input from the user. You’ll specify an EditText for numeric input, ...
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