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Now that you have setup your networking model, you are ready to write your UI code using a RecyclerView
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We set up our networking model and
now we're ready to write our UI code.
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The app is going to display listings
from Etsy in a scrolling list.
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To do this,
we're going to use a recycler view.
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If you need to brush up on
how to use recycler view,
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see the link in the teacher's notes.
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Let's start out by writing a layout file.
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This will be used to display for
each item in the list.
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It's gonna go to my resource folder,
in layout, and create a new file.
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I want to call mine, layout_listing.
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In here, we need three views.
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An image view, it's going to
display the image from the listing.
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And I need a text view to display
the title, so let's give this an ID.
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We'll give the image view an ID as well,
so we can reference these later on in our
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adapter, so
keep that in additional text views.
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This one is going to be the shop name.
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And, finally,
I'm going to have one for the price.
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I'm going to use a combination of linear
layout and relative layout to get
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the listing image to display nicely for
each item in our scrolling list.
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I'm just gonna go ahead and
use a relative layout around all the text.
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So it's width is going to be match parent,
so
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it's going to go all the way across
the full width for each item.
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The height is going to be wrap content, so
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it'll only be as tall as
the text we put in there.
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Let's go ahead and move the text
news into our relative layout.
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Now we need to add in some rules about how
these text views are going to be laid out
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within our relative layout.
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I want the title to be the largest,
on the top, and
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below that, I want the shop name on
the left, and the price on the right.
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So, first, let's go ahead and
make sure that the title's width
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is all the way across, so we're gonna make
it match parent, and now the shop name is
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going to be aligned to
the parent's left side.
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And we also want it to be below the title.
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So we give it the rule layout underscore
below and we give it the ID of the title.
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We can go ahead and
check In the design panel,
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if we put some text in here,
this is working.
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Just gonna put some sample content in.
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You can use the tools
namespace to put in some text,
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I'm just gonna put in some text right
now and I'll delete it later on.
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Just want to make sure that my
rules are set up correctly.
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And yes, the shop name is below the title.
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And let's go ahead and
add in a rule for the price as well.
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It should also be below the listing title,
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only it should be aligned To
the right hand side of the parent.
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To support left and right and right and
left languages, you can also add in
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the start and end attributes that
mirror left and right as well.
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Gonna put in some sample pricing here.
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Let's check this out.
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Yes, our price is to the right,
shop name to the left,
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and listing titles above that.
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So that looks pretty good.
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Okay, this will work to start out.
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Since we're using recycler
view to display listings,
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we need to go ahead and
add this as a build dependency.
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Let's go to our build.gradle file,
and add in a new compile statement for
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recycler view, which is part of
the support library, com.android.support,
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recyclerview-v7 and
the latest version 21.0.3.
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Again we need a sync.
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Okay, now that it's finished syncing
we should be able to use recycler view.
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