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Daniel Cudney
Courses Plus Student 746 PointsAndriod Development - Setting Up a document
In the treehouse lessons, there was a part where the teacher cut all the code from one page and placed it over/into another .xml file (i believe it was .xml)
Can some one help me with either: how to do this,, or video i am referring too.
Also why would we do this?
1 Answer
Matt Capelli
7,293 PointsHi Daniel, I think you may be referring to when the instructor created a new style. If you have certain style elements that are repeated in multiple layout files, you can refactor the repeated portions of the code into a new style that can be used across multiple layouts. You can create a new style by highlighting the repeated code, and then going to the top ribbon in Eclipse and clicking 'Refactor' --> 'Android' --> 'Extract Style'. Check out the video 'Creating a Style' for more information.
This helps with the DRY (Don't repeat yourself) principle used in programming. Hope this helps!
Matt