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Next, add five child UI widgets in the activity_contact.xml file in the /res/layout folder
to serve as your Button UI elements. Configure them using only the android:id and android:text
parameters, as shown in Figure 14-20. Use ID names and reference values that match the ones
you used in your strings.xml file. These configurations are quite simple, because the
TableLayout class takes care of the layout parameter default settings!

Figure 14-19. Add five constants to the strings.xml file for the database read and write operation buttons

Figure 14-20. Add five child

tags inside the with only basic ID and text label parameters

The XML markup for the parent tag and the five child

tags looks like
the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TableLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" >