6.9. Adding Color and Graphics

Our application works well, but it’s a bit dull looking. A little bit of color and some graphics could go a long way. Android offers a lot of support to make your application snazzy. We’re going to see some basics here.

6.9.1. Adding Images

For starters, we want to add a background to our screen. This background is going to be some kind of graphics file. In Android, most images go to a resource folder called drawable. You may notice that you already have three folders with this name: