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Android UI overview -- Understanding views : the UI building blocks -- Creating full layouts with ViewGroups and Fragments -- Adding app graphics and resources -- Starting a new app -- Developing the app foundation -- Finalizing the design -- Applying the design -- Further improving the app -- How to handle common components -- Combining views for custom components -- Developing fully custom views -- Working with the canvas and advanced drawing.