Chapter 1
Exploring Custom Views
Your understanding of Android SDK is not vigorous until you master the architecture of Android’s Views. So it is appropriate that we begin Expert Android by exploring the power of Android’s custom views. Our goal in this and the next two chapters is to unwrap the architecture of Android’s Views by customizing them. In Android you can customize views in three ways:
- Custom views (by extending the View class)
- Compound views/controls (by composing other existing controls through extending one of the existing Layout classes) (Note that in this and the next few chapters we are using custom views and custom components synonymously)
- Custom layouts (by extending the ViewGroup class)
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