Android XML Layouts – A study of Viewgroups and Views for UI Design in Android Application

Authors(2) :-Rahul Shah, Kumari Chettri

The main objective of this paper is to tell about the Android platform, which is designed for mobile devices, and android based mobile app development, which helps developers to develop various applications, which are now being used by the user all across the world. Android developers make use of layout with the help of which users can get a good user interface for an android application. This paper will mostly focus on the types of layouts and views that developers use to design the user interface of an android application. This paper will also discuss extensible mark-up language (XML) which is the lightweight mark-up language used for designing the layouts.

Authors and Affiliations

Rahul Shah
Department of Information Technology, ICFAI University Sikkim, Gangtok, Sikkim, India
Kumari Chettri
Department of Information Technology, ICFAI University Sikkim, Gangtok, Sikkim, India

Android, XML Layouts, Smartphones, User Interface

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 6 | Issue 2 | March-April 2020
Date of Publication : 2020-04-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 184-197
Manuscript Number : CSEIT206249
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

ISSN : 2456-3307

Cite This Article :

Rahul Shah, Kumari Chettri, "Android XML Layouts – A study of Viewgroups and Views for UI Design in Android Application", International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology (IJSRCSEIT), ISSN : 2456-3307, Volume 6, Issue 2, pp.184-197, March-April-2020. Available at doi : https://doi.org/10.32628/CSEIT206249
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