A tutorial to show you how to change your Android application background.

1. Android Application Tutorial
How to change the background
Instructed on: 02-Mar-2012 | Tutorial: #05
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By : Yasmine Sherif Mahmoud
Tutorial Code: APS-05-2012
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2. • We are now going to continue working on our
last project to change its background.
• Open your project and follow these steps:

3. I added a new picture to the drawable file
to use it as a background.
You can add a new picture as we learned in
the last tutorial.

4. Here is the new picture in the drawable file
that I will use as a background.

5. Expand the layout file and open the
main.xml file

6. You will begin editing
your code here
Choose this tab.

7. Begin writing android:b and it will give you these options:
Choose android:background

8. After choosing android:background write =
and open a “ then it will give you these
options.
Choose @drawable/

9. Type the name of your picture.
Close the “
Close the >

10. Save

11. Run as

12. Open your application

13. Background is
changed
successfully 

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