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Displaying Data From Code

Explore how to use tools attributes in XML and Kotlin code to dynamically display data in an Android details screen. Learn to bind layouts to activities, set images and ratings programmatically, and handle user interactions such as closing the screen with a back icon.

Tools attributes

In the previous lesson, we defined test layout data inside the XML file, but this data will be dynamically set from code. If we leave things as they are right now, we will see the test data before the real data is loaded.

To avoid this situation, we can remove the test data, but this means that it will be hard to understand what data should be displayed without digging into code. There is a better way to ...