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Soumitra Mehrotra
337 PointsWhy are we writing value directly under Text??
We could have written those value under Text tools because we are going to change the values anyway, just like we did in Interactive Story app?
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Boban Talevski
24,793 PointsI was wondering myself the same thing throughout the videos. But in the end (in this case), it doesn't really matter that much as we are going to populate those values dynamically in code anyway.
On second thought, the reason to use text instead of tools:text might have to do with the fact that we would want to have something there in case our app has internet access issues on startup. So without having any data retrieved most of the screen would be empty (provided we do allow for the screen to show without internet access) and would look weird. Not that having hard coded values that don't have anything to do with actual weather conditions isn't also weird, but guess it's a matter of design choice, which one would look "less broken" :).