- Getting to Know Our Tools 4:52
- Android Tools Overview 5 questions
- Editing a Layout File 4:52
- Changing Text in a Layout 1 objective
- Adding a TextView 4:15
- Changing Text Size 1 objective
- Adding a Button 4:31
- Adding a Button 1 objective
- Setting Colors 5:26
- Setting Colors 2 objectives
- Setting Padding 1:13
- Setting a Fullscreen Theme 3:30
- Setting Padding 1 objective
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Setting Padding
1:13In this video we'll talk about how to add padding to our layout!
We're almost done with our layout.
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The last thing we need to do is
set the padding around our views
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to match our markups.
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If we take another look,
we see that there's some space between
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each of our views and
the edges of the screen.
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We can change the amount of space
by updating the padding property
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of a relative layout.
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Let's try to do this in XML.
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Over on the text tab inside
the relative layout element,
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add a line below where
we set the background.
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Then type android:padding and
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set it equal to, in quotes, 50dp.
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Remember how we used sp as the units for
text size?
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Well, dp is similar.
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Dp stands for density independent pixels.
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Android devices can have all sorts
of different screen resolutions.
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And using density independent pixels
helps us make sure our app looks
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relatively consistent
across all those devices.
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And now we can see that our views
have a little space off setting them
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from the edges of our relative layout,
just like in the mock ups.
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In the next video, we'll see how to get
rid of this bar at the top of the screen.
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