{"id":8569,"date":"2014-01-30T14:02:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T12:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/examples.javacodegeeks.com\/?p=8569"},"modified":"2014-03-15T20:14:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T18:14:37","slug":"android-custom-components-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/examples.javacodegeeks.com\/android\/core\/ui\/component\/android-custom-components-example\/","title":{"rendered":"Android Custom Components Example"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although Android provides us many built-in components, such as Button<\/code>, TextView<\/code> etc, it also offers us the opportunity to create our own custom widgets in order to adjust them to our needs and our requirements. Depending on the customization of the component, we can extend it to an existing built-in widget or to a class that we have created or generally to View<\/code> class, that is the parent-class of all the components. Except from the use of the default attributes of the parent class, we can create our own attributes from scratch.<\/p>\n

In this example we are going to show how to create our own custom component, that extends an existing subclass of View<\/code>, and how to add some custom attributes in it.<\/p>\n

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For this tutorial, we will use the following tools in a Windows 64-bit platform:<\/p>\n

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  1. JDK 1.7<\/li>\n
  2. Eclipse 4.2 Juno<\/li>\n
  3. Android SDK 4.4<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    1. Create simple Custom Components<\/h2>\n

    Before explaining every step of making our custom component that includes its special attributes, we should mention that we can make a simple custom widget without any new attribute set, by:<\/p>\n