Here’s the skivvy on the review. Since, I made the commitment to read this Droid book, I’m going to provide review notes for each hour of the book immediately after I complete that section of the book. In theory you’ll see 24 separate posts over the next few days containing my personal notes on my experience with the book.

Hour 10 Review Notes

Collecting data with forms!!  In this hour the following controls are introduced:  EditText, Button and Spinner.  The saving of the form data will be with SharedPreferences!!

First new thing was the Arrays.xml as a values resource.  Didn’t know this was possible, and the syntax looks like this in the file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <string-array
        name="genders">
        <item>@string/gender_neutral</item>
        <item>@string/gender_male</item>
        <item>@string/gender_female</item>
    </string-array>
</resources>

The setting screen is complete, and yes, that is a little bit of a different emulator than previous screen shots.  I’m learning to view in other AVDs, though I haven’t been able to connect via USB and deploy to my Zio… http://www.ebay.com/itm/120822080982?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649