Updating and Creating Layout Files

For the rest of these videos, I will be showing how I chose to solve the problem. 0:00 There are lots of ways to write an app. 0:05 And as long as the app works, you shouldn't be too concerned with how 0:07 you got it to work, at least while you're still learning. 0:10 That said, I'm going to jump right in and get started. 0:14 I am going to call the app Golf Score Card, 0:18 and hit next, next, empty activity, next and finish. 0:25 Knowing that this activity is mostly just a big list, I am going to start 0:31 by extending list activity, remember when 0:36 we're extending list activity, our main layout is a list view with a special ID. 0:42 Let's go ahead, and make some changes to activity main to make that the case. 0:48 I'm going to get rid of the text view. 0:55 And drag in a list view. 1:00 Then, I'm going to give it the ID of @android. 1:11 ID forward slash list. 1:15 Looks good. 1:20 Now, that I've got my activity main.xml all sorted out, I'm going to create a list 1:21 item.xml, which will be the xml file describing each row of the list view. 1:27 The first thing I'm gonna do is change the orientation to horizontal. 1:41 And let's go ahead, and import the tools name space as well by typing tools, and 1:48 hitting tab. 1:52 Alright. 1:53 From the mock ups, I know that the left most column 1:58 is going to be a text view representing the label of the hole. 2:02 Which in this case is hole one, hole two, hole three and so on. 2:05 Next to that is another text view that represents the score for 2:10 that particular hole. 2:13 Next to that is a button that will remove a stroke, and 2:17 then, another button that will add a stroke. 2:22 I'm going to use the lay out width and lay out wait components to make 2:26 each of these fit on the screen just a little better. 2:31 I am going to set the layout width to zero dp as that 2:37 allows us to use the layout_width attribute. 2:42 Layout_weight attribute. 2:54 And I'm going to set the weight of the first TextView, which is the label, to 3. 2:57 The weight of the second TextView, which is the score, or 3:06 strokes taken, to 2, and the weight of the buttons to 1. 3:10 And then, let's see how that looks. 3:14 That looks pretty good, but there's a lot of text on that button, 3:21 a lot more than we need. 3:24 Probably, pretty safe just using a plus and a minus sign. 3:27 And while we're in the text side of things, let's go ahead and 3:36 update these IDs. 3:39 The first ID should be set to hole label. 3:41 And I'm gonna call the second one stroke count. 3:45 This first button, I'm going to call remove stroke button. 3:54 On the second button, I'm going to call addStrokeButton. 4:01 Alright. 4:05 Now, the layout dimensions look okay, but the text is a little small, so 4:08 I'm gonna change that. 4:13 And it's going to recommend that I use SP instead of DP. 4:23 So, we'll do that. 4:27 And I'm just gonna copy this, and make everything have the same text size. 4:30 Alright. 4:41 One last step that i'm gonna do is change these text to something more meaningful. 4:42 We'll change this one to be whole one. 4:48 And this one to be zero. 4:54 And then, i'm going to change the name spaces for these two tools. 4:59 I don't want these to actually show up in the app. 5:03 I'm just setting them to this, so I can look them in the design tab. 5:07 And that's what the tools name space is for. 5:10 Alright we've created both of our layouts. 5:16