Join Michael Lehman for an in-depth discussion in this video Exploring the Button control, part of Learning Simple Android Development Tools.
…Okay we've looked at the pallet, viewer,…components and properties elements of the designer.…Now let's dig into the properties of specifically of the button control.…We've dragged a button over here from the pallet to our viewer.…You can see in the components column we have the button selected and over here…on the right we have the collection of…properties or attributes that a button can have.…You can see that the button is shown both in the viewer over…here on the left, and in the emulator here over on the right.…You're going to hear me say this multiple times, but just remember that…the viewer is only an approximation, and the emulator is a better approximation,…but the only true way to know what it's going to look like…is to actually see it on your Android phone or your Android tablet.…So having said that, let's take a look at the properties of button.…Button has a whole collection of properties, that as I…mentioned before, are in common with a bunch of other controls.…So begin with, we can look at the background color of a button, and we can…
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6/27/2014- Understanding the elements of an Android app, such as controls, sensors, effectors, and storage
- Exploring MIT App Inventor 2
- Getting started with Basic4android
- Building simple apps
- Testing apps on Android emulators and devices
- Sharing apps
- Creating hybrid apps with Appy Pie, Make Me Droid, and AppMakr
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