Displaying Data From Code
Explore how to display dynamic data in your Android app by using tools attributes for design-time visualization and setting real data from Java code. Learn to create and register activities, bind views, update UI elements like images and ratings dynamically, and handle user interactions such as closing the details screen.
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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 test data before 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 handle this situation - tools attributes.
Tools attributes live in a ...