Chapter     6

Android UI Design: Using Views and Widgets via XML

In this chapter, we will take our Hello World application, which we created during the first part of the book, and work toward making the application user interface design for its various functional screens considerably more professional. In Android, this is done primarily via XML UI parameters for Android user interface widgets, which we already know are View subclasses.

At the same time, we are also going to utilize this chapter to give those of our readers who are not user interface designers a taste of the various design considerations that are encountered in striving to make a UI design appear professional, while also remaining easy to use for the end-users.

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