Hour 4. Managing Application Resources

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

Using application and system resources

Working with simple resource values

Working with drawable resources

Working with layouts

Working with files

Working with other types of resources

Android applications rely upon strings, graphics, and other types of resources to generate robust user interfaces. Android projects can include these resources, using a well-defined project resource hierarchy. In this hour, you review the most common types of resources used by Android applications, how they are stored, and how they can be accessed programmatically. This hour prepares you for working with resources in future chapters, but you are not directly asked to write code or ...

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