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Making Apps Interactive: Intents, Event Handling, and Menus

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User interface design is built upon the foundation of the Activity superclass as well as the View and ViewGroup superclasses, which you learned all about in the previous chapter. However, without any interactivity in your UI design, the usefulness of what you can do with your Android application is somewhat limited!

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Jackson, W. (2014). Making Apps Interactive: Intents, Event Handling, and Menus. In: Android Apps for Absolute Beginners. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0019-3_7

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