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1. All of the click-able items show up in blue underlined text, and
   when clicked they pop up the appropriate application (e.g., clicking

a Web URL brings up the Browser application).

2. Clicking on a row with a location, as we introduced in a previous

tutorial, does not spawn our StatusMap.

Step #2: Draft and Package the Help HTML

Next, we need some placeholder HTML to serve as our help prose. This

does not need to be terribly fancy – in fact, simpler HTML works better,

because it loads faster.

So, write a Web page that will serve as the placeholder for the Patchy help.

The key is where you put the page: create an assets/ directory in your

project and store it as help.html in there. That will line up with the URL we

will use in the next section to reference that help file.

Step #3: Create a Help Activity

Now, we can create a help activity class that will load our Web page and do

some other useful things.

First, create Patchy/res/layout/help.xml with the following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

android:orientation="vertical"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="fill_parent"

>

<WebView android:id="@+id/webkit"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="0px"

android:layout_weight="1"

/>

</LinearLayout>

Then, create Patchy/src/apt/tutorial/two/HelpPage.java with the following

code:

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