From the course: Android App Development: Working with Widgets

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Set the widget styles

Set the widget styles - Android Tutorial

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Set the widget styles

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- [Instructor] Now we've got some items in our widget but there is more you can do with the widget styling options so let's explore these. The first thing I'd like to do is add some margin for the first X here. So the way to do this, you can either do it in the attributes here, so you can basically scroll and find the attributes. If you want to see all the attributes you can click at the bottom here and find the attribute you want to change. If you don't see this for whatever reason on the Mac you can actually do a command here on the file, invalidate caches and restart, and this will basically show your attributes. On Windows it shouldn't be a problem but if you have any issues seeing the attributes this is how you get them back. So basically the first one that I want to do is add some margin for this guy here. So let's go into the layout margin and go on the left value, and let's add 10 DP as opposed to eight. And if that doesn't change much, let's do 15. Perfect. All right, for…

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