Chapter 10. Building more advanced Android views
This chapter covers
- Using recycler views
- Configuring and handling menus
- Activity navigation and the Back button
- Setting app icons
- Styles, themes, and XML drawables
- MvvmCross application lifecycle and launch screens
In chapter 9 we looked at the basics of creating an Android UI, including layout files, images, and activities, and we ended up by building the complete UI for SquareRt. In this chapter we’ll be looking at some more advanced Android UI topics so we can build the UI for Countr: using recycler views to show lists of data, and adding menu items to the Android toolbar, for example. We’ll then look at improving our apps’ icons and launch screens.
10.1. Building the UI for Countr
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