Developing Android Applications: App Layout


Overview/Description
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Expertise Level


Overview/Description
Android apps are laid out using a powerful form of XML found in Android Studio. This course explores the Android app layout and layout modification techniques. Begin by discovering the purpose of view groups in Android development. next, learn about Android parents, children, and siblings, as well as linear layout, layout weight, and relative layout. From there, you can set up portrait or landscape orientation for your projects. Conclude by getting familiar with explicit and implicit intents, margins, padding, and the ConstraintLayout feature of Android Studio to create responsive user interfaces (UIs).

Expected Duration (hours)
1.2

Lesson Objectives

Developing Android Applications: App Layout

  • describe the purpose of view groups in Android development
  • specify the relationships between parents, children, and siblings in Android development
  • identify linear layout and how it's configured in Android development
  • describe layout weight and how it's configured in Android development
  • identify relative layout and how it's configured in Android development
  • specify how portrait and landscape orientation are configured in Android development
  • describe the importance of and uses for intents
  • demonstrate how to implement explicit intents using Android Studio
  • demonstrate how to implement implicit intents using Android Studio
  • identify margins and how they're manipulated in Android development
  • identify padding and how it's manipulated in Android development
  • identify the purpose and use of ConstraintLayout in Android development
  • create and configure a basic app layout using Android Studio

    • Course Number:
    it_sddabd_03_enus

    Expertise Level
    Beginner