In this tutorial we will cover how to create a forum or wall for our social media app. This will be slightly more complex than what we have covered so far. This will be your main activity feed and thus it is important to think deeply about what you want your users to see or experience. Building your layout I have created the following layout for the forum. I started by dragging a linear H onto my layout Inside the linear h, I placed the following: I.) Imageview- this will hold the profile picture of the user II.) A linear V- this will just be a place holder III.) imageview- this will reveal the options to add a new post IV.) Imageview- this will be our search button V. Edittext- this is where the user will type a search query VI. Imageview- this will clear and hide the search field Adding a Customview We will need to add a customview to determine how our wall posts will be displayed. I have created my customview and given it the name "custom". It looks as shown below: Now