Does a visual activity have to have a layout?

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aarondc

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• Aug 3, 2013

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ie does LoadLayout do anything special behind the scenes that I should be aware of?

 

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klaus

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• Aug 3, 2013

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You can either create a layout and load it, add the views in the code or have a mixture of both.
The advantage of creating a layout is that you can easily set the different properties, without code, and see how it looks on a device or an Emulator. In the Designer you can add code in the DesignerScripts to manage different screen sizes.

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• Aug 3, 2013

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Thanks Klaus.

You raise a good point - can you do the DesignerScripts functionality via code? Or only the designer?

 

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klaus

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• Aug 3, 2013

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Yes.
Look at the AutoScale module.

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Sweet. Thanks again.

 

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