Android Application Development Tutorial - 22 - XML Introducting the EditText

[sandruz87]

LOL!

[phlexonance]

by Ctrl+Shift+Format he means Ctrl+Shift+F

neat feature btw

[Akiii001]

hey travis, its giving me an error saying "Type a Command" should use a @string resource and there is a yellow under-line. Please tell me what wrong i am doing ?

[TTV5]

...But my mom's always been more of a wrap_content person :/

[adnuscan]

this is great!!!

[07liam08]

is equaled to your mom . . haha

[jacktrow1]

if your 'android:hint' gets a yellow line under it, it means you have to create a string variable under 'values' like we in one of the fist tutorials and reference it the quotes.

[phlexonance]

@jacktrow1 It means you >>should<< create a separate string for it. Yellow is for warnings, you can ignore those if you want.

[TheBaiga]

You got it covered !

[muadhnate]

Such a geek joke.

[DarkGhost89]

Umm.. FYI, pretty simple, but when he said format, I think meant ctrl+shift+f

[shaxaary1]

my startingPoint button doesn't seem to do nothing from the previous tutorial and i did everything right, did anyone solve the problem yet?

[laba1987]

@shaxaary1 I got mine working after a couple of hours trying to figure it out. With mine it was that i hadn't typed in the whole package path in the forName parameter. gl mate

[ppiibb]

I saw like 15 of these in a row and I ended up using the phrase "for the most part" a ton of times hahaa... jk man, love your tutorials

[zibracakes95]

so you are telling me that Ive been manually typing out the interface in the layout.xml files when i could have been using the graphical one to just drag and drop on everything i need? i mean i understand we need to know how to do it the other way but we are living in the future, eclipse gave us these tools lets use them!

[rpg32tamu]

I was having the same problem that several people mentioned already, the app would force quite after the splash screen. I do not know what exactly caused this problem but I was able to fix it by going into the manifest and changing the Intent name from .MENU to .ME and then changing the splash file to .ME as well. Then I was able to run the program with no problems. After that I switched it back to .MENU and it worked. Like I said I have no idea why this worked but you may want to try it.

[weatherscomputerz]

Travis your da best

[justinrixx]

You leave my mother out of this!

[colombiak]

I'm starting to get this,

XML is how you set the look, appearance, and structure

Java: actions, classes which makes ur bottons actually do something.

Android Manifest is where u point things out like classes and such.

[rockersadriana]

@colombiak Yes, this is correct in terms of this tutorial so far. To add - in the general sense, the purpose of XML files is to store data which can be exchanged later between whoever would need this data (e.g. applications/processes). For example, two applications can exchange XML files between them if they need to synchronize their data.

[rockersadriana]

@rockersadriana this is because XML files are most convenient to describe any type of data and the XML format is common. (Note: it is not necessary for XML files to be exchanged, they can be created, used and even deleted by the same process).

[colombiak]

@rockersadriana Very helpful! thanks a lot

[rockersadriana]

@colombiak you are welcome. 

[xGrowler]

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[rockersadriana]

@xGrowler Thank you!

[nesportskid]

1:32 ohhhh sick burn lol

[joannis11]

I'm looking at these tutorials the day that I see they're on. Usually I see them being uploaded, watch some, pause, watch some more, pause. And then I don't get to see all the uploads (10-15) on one day since I had a lot of pauses, so I go on in night. Because I MUST watch tutorials.

[mastermax7777]

@joannis11 cool story bro

[iTyGuy32]

Woah! first time in the under 300 club!

[TheScars75]

First, not like anyone gives a shit.