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Android Programming for Beginners: User Menus

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Juliet Kemp
Jan 17, 2013

A very common pattern in an Android activity is showing a list of items for the user to select from. The Android API provides the ListView and ListActivity classes to help out with this. Carrying on with the Countdown app from previous tutorials, we’ll list a few sample countdown times for the user to select from to set the timer.

JK

Juliet Kemp

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