Chapter 13

Handling User Input

It's rare to find an application that does not allow user input. Users almost always need to interact with an application in one way or another — through the use of text, date pickers, time pickers, or any other input mechanisms, such as radio buttons or check boxes,. Although the input mechanism may provide a way for users to interact with your application, they won't be chit-chatting and spurring up small talk. User input, in this sense, refers to buttons, screen-dragging, menus, long-pressing, and various other options. In this chapter, I focus solely on user input in the form of free-form text, date and times, and alerts — the sort of input you're most likely to encounter in your Task Reminder application.