Hello all, I am new to developing on Android. I was wondering if someone could explain each line below and what it does? I understand how it works as a whole, just not sure what each part does



Thanks in advance for your time.

Neondog wrote:Hello all, I am new to developing on Android. I was wondering if someone could explain each line below and what it does? I understand how it works as a whole, just not sure what each part does

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2.     @Override \\What are we overriding?
3.      public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) { \\What is an icicle
4.           super.onCreate(icicle);
5.           this.setContentView(R.layout.main); \\I know this talks to the XML file but I dont understand how or what the connection is.
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Thanks in advance for your time.

We are overriding the method onCreate defined for the class we extend (an Activity of some sort in this case)
"this" refers to the present context - in this case, the activity class. So we say "I want this activity to display the view contained in the xml file main"

Thanks for the input freewheelnat, I appreciate it. So the extended class Activity has its own interface and we are overriding it? Either way, why do we need to override? Is the @Override specific to Java or the Dalvik VM? I found some of my answers by reading AndBook http://www.anddev.org/andbook/files/andbook.pdf , but it still left me with more questions. I understand what "super" and "this" mean, so that's a good sign. "R.layout.main" references the XML file...but how does it do that. Is "R.layout.main" a class that knows to grab the androidmanafest.xml and get certain parts of it? Again, thanks for your help.