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The document discusses different types of user interface views in Android like TextView, EditText, Button, ToggleButton, RadioButton, CheckBox and ProgressBar. It provides details about the purpose and attributes of each view.

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The document discusses different types of user interface views in Android like TextView, EditText, Button, ToggleButton, RadioButton, CheckBox and ProgressBar. It provides details about the purpose and attributes of each view.

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Unit 4

Designing User Interface with view

Text View

• It displays text to the user

• It is a complete text editor

• Attributes

• android:id – id uniquely identifies the control

• android:capitalize- specifies that the TextView has a textual input method and
should automatically capitalize what the user types

• Values

0 – don’t automatically capitalize

1- capitalize the first word of each sentence

2 – capitalize first letter of each word

3 – capitalize every character

• android:editable – if true, specifies that this TextView has an input method

• android:fontFamily – specifies the font for the string

• android:gravity-specifies how to align the text by the view’s x or y axes

• android:hint – hint text to be displayed when the text is empty

• android:inputType – the type of data being placed in the textfield. Phone, Date, Time,
Number, Password etc

• android:password – whether this text field’s values are to be displayed as password dots
instead of the string. Values – true, false

• android:textStyle –bold, italic or bolditalic for the input text. Values – 0-normal, 1- bold,2-
italic(| can be used for combination)

Example
Edit Text

• It is an over lay over TextView that configures itself to be editable

• It is the predefined subclass of TextView that includes rich editing capabilities

• android:autoText - If set, specifies that this TextView has a textual input method and
automatically corrects some common spelling errors.

• android:text-This is the Text to display.


Button

• android:id -ThisA button is a push button that can be pressed/clicked, by the user to perform
some type of action

• android:id-supplies an identifier name for this view.

• android:onClick - This is the name of the method in this View's context to invoke when the
view is clicked.

• android:text – displays the text on the button


Toggle Button

• It is used to display the checked or unchecked state of a button


• Toggle button is a on/off button with a light indicator, that indicates the current state of a
button

• It allows the user to change the setting between two states

• android:textOff – this is the text for the button when it is off

• Android:textOn – this is the text for the button when it is on

• android:id – id of the view

Radio Button

• Radio buttons allow the user to select one option from a set

• RadioButton are mainly used together in a RadioGroup.

• In RadioGroup, checking one radio button out of several radio buttons added in it will
automatically uncheck all the others.
• It means at a time one can check only one radio button from a group of radio buttons which
belong to same radio group

• RadioButon is a two state button that can be checked or unchecked.

• If a radio button is unchecked then a user can check it by simply clicking on it.

• Once a RadiaButton is checked by user it can’t be unchecked by simply pressing on the same
button.

• It will automatically be unchecked when any other RadioButton is clicked within


same RadioGroup.

• Attributes

• android:id – used to uniquely identify

• Android:text – used to specify the text for radiobutton

• Android:onClick – event handler to be invoked when the button is clicked.

• Android:checked – to specify the status of the radio button values – false/ true
Check Box

• A CheckBox is an on/off switch

• Check-boxes should be used when presenting users with a group of selectable options that
are not mutually exclusive.

• Attributes

• Android:id – specified to uniquely identify the view

• Android:text – text displayed

• Android:onClick –method to be invoked when the check box is clicked

• Android:checked – to specify the status


Progress Bar

• Progress bars are used to show progress of a task

• Eg: When something is uploaded or downloaded from the internet, it is better to show the
progress of download/upload to the user.

• Progress bar supports two modes to represent progress: determinate, and indeterminate.

• Indeterminate mode for the progress bar is to be used when the duration of the operation is
not known.

• Indeterminate mode is the default for progress bar and shows a cyclic animation without a
specific amount of progress indicated.

• Use determinate mode for the progress bar when one wants to show the specific quantity of
progress that has occurred.

• For example, the percent remaining of a file being retrieved

• Indeterminate bar
• Determinate bar to show 25% progress

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