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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) Finishing the User Interface Creating the Story Layout

Saurabh B
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Saurabh B
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Writing text via TextView Button

What is the need of writing text through the design view of the layout as we have already written the text in our code. So I think it would be better if we do either of the two.

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Izaak Prats
Izaak Prats
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Izaak Prats
Izaak Prats
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The answer is really to have a placeholder for when the app loads, I believe. I think it would be a bit off-putting to load into a small choose your own adventure app and not see anything but a blank screen while the texts popped in. If you think there's a better placeholder text (or that no placeholder text would be better), do so and see how it affects the experience!