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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Building the Weather UI Adding the Upper Half

Jeremiah Shore
Jeremiah Shore
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Posted by Jeremiah Shore
Jeremiah Shore
31,168 Points

Easier processes for editing the layout using design view and themes

It's mentioned a couple times in the video that it can be finicky to get your layout items in place exactly where you want them. While totally important to be able to adjust and confirm their position in the XML, I've found that zooming in a bit makes placement much easier with the automatic anchoring that pops up. Often the text views that are created are so small they are hard to handle anyway without zooming, unless starting with Large Text.

Also, it might be worth mentioning that white could be set as the text color in the theme. Additionally, through my own projects I've started adding a colors.xml file and <color> resources. By doing so I can set a standard look across the theme without having to adjust colors all the time, and if I want I can edit them in a central place, like we would with @string resources.

Just some tips I thought were worth sharing for beginners like myself.