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Ernest Grzybowski
Treehouse Project ReviewerAndroid Pro Tip - Crafting Custom Views
Great little presentation/slideshow you can look at here.
A good little breakdown for newcomers that don't understand what a "view" is/does.
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Ben Jakuben
Treehouse TeacherAwesome - thanks for sharing, Ernest Grzybowski!
To summarize a view for those who don't watch the presentation: a view is literally a rectangle on the screen of the phone or tablet. It could be the whole screen or just part of it. A view has two main responsibilities: draw everything inside the rectangle (like a button, for example), and respond to user actions inside that rectangle (like when the button is tapped).
Keep those Pro Tips coming Ernest and others! I'll try to pop some in the forum as well, but I also tweet about Android and iOS @bendog24, or you can search for the #AndroidDev hashtag.