3.4.5. Customizing the Views to Complete the Design
You’ll now complete the app’s design by customizing the views’ properties and creating several string and dimension resources. As you learned in Section 2.5, literal string values should be placed in the strings.xml resource file. Similarly, literal numeric values that specify view dimensions (e.g., widths, heights and spacing) should be placed in the dimens.xml resource file.
Step 6: Specifying Literal Text
Specify the literal text for the amountTextView, customPercentTextView, percent15TextView, percentCustomTextView, tipTextView and totalTextView:
1. Select the amountTextView in the Outline window.
2. In the Properties window, click the ellipsis button next to the Text property.
3. In the ...
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