Chapter 9
Understanding Android Resources
In This Chapter
- Knowing why resources are so important in Android
- Extracting resources
- Working with image resources
The information about resources and their usage covered in Chapters 5 and 8 were necessary to help you understand the basics of the resource directory as well as to see how resources are used to build a simple application. However, to succeed as an app developer, you need to understand resources in more detail, so in this chapter, I provide thorough coverage of the topic. You have many compelling reasons to use resources in your application, one being globalization — which I cover in this chapter.
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