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The SL4A Android API

The SL4A technology provides a high-level API to the low-level Android API,
and SL4A’s API is documented in the online API reference:

http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/wiki/ApiReference
Recall the code from earlier, which demonstrated a minimal Android SL4A
app:
Import the “android”
library and create a new
app object instance. import android
app = android.Android()
msg = "Hello from Head First Python on Android"
Create an appropriate
message and display it on app.makeToast(msg)
screen.

Six calls to the Android API let you create a list of selectable items in a dialog,
together with positive and negative buttons, which are used to indicate the
selection your user made. Note how each of the calls to the Android “dialog”
API results in something appearing on screen.

Always start with an import.

Create an Android
import android
app object.

app = android.Android()

app.dialogCreateAlert("Select an athlete:")
app.dialogSetSingleChoiceItems(['Mikey', 'Sarah', 'James', 'Julie'])
app.dialogSetPositiveButtonText("Select")
app.dialogSetNegativeButtonText("Quit")
app.dialogShow()
resp = app.dialogGetResponse().result

Display your dialog Wait for a response
on the phone.
from your user.

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