Styling Android
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A technical guide to improving the UI and UX of Android apps
Styling Android
3y ago
It is with heavy heart that I must announce that Styling Android is on indefinite hiatus with immediate effect. Throughout 2021 I have been having to deal with increasing levels of piracy. I have been spending increasing amounts of time dealing with this. It has simply become too much. Creating new content for Styling Android ..read more
Styling Android
3y ago
UI testing on Android has been tricky. However, Jetpack Compose makes it much easier. In a recent post we looked at how we can easily test adaptive layouts. But we can take this further. In another recent post, we created a strikethru animation overlay. In this post, we’ll look at how we can test the…
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Styling Android
3y ago
Regular readers of Styling Android will know that I rather like animating things. That’s a topic that I’ve covered frequently! There’s an occasional series where I cover techniques for animating icons. For togglable icons this generally uses <animated-selector />. However, Compose does not support this. If you try and inflate a resource containing this tag,…
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Styling Android
3y ago
Back in February 2020, I wrote about how location is becoming more complex in terms of privacy. The primary motivation around that post was that Bluetooth scans and pairing require ACCESS_LOCATION_FINE permission which can be confusing for the user. Why should an app that connects to a Bluetooth device require access to my location? The…
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Styling Android
3y ago
In a recent post on Styling Android we looked SlidingPanelLayout. This can simplify the implementation of a List / Detail UI. It handles the logic of whether to show a side-by-side layout or a two-page layout depending on the screen size. Currently, there is no equivalent for this in Jetpack Compose. In this article, we’ll…
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Styling Android
3y ago
In a recent post on Styling Android we looked SlidingPanelLayout. This can simplify the implementation of a List / Detail UI. It handles the logic of whether to show a side-by-side layout or a two-page layout depending on the screen size. Currently, there is no equivalent for this in Jetpack Compose. In this article, we’ll…
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Styling Android
3y ago
In a recent post on Styling Android we looked SlidingPanelLayout. This can simplify the implementation of a List / Detail UI. It handles the logic of whether to show a side-by-side layout or a two-page layout depending on the screen size. Currently, there is no equivalent for this in Jetpack Compose. In this article, we’ll…
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Styling Android
3y ago
In April 2021 Gradle V7.0 was released. It introduces a new experimental feature called version catalogs. These can make life easier when we need to maintain consistent dependency versions in multi-module projects. In this post, we’ll take a look at this new feature, and how it can make life easier. Regular readers of Styling Android ..read more
Styling Android
3y ago
Jetpack Compose was first announced by Google at I/O 2019. For those that don’t know, Compose is a declarative UI framework. It will replace the traditional View-based system that has been part of Android since the beginning. In this post, I’ll explain why there hasn’t been any Compose content on Styling Android up to now ..read more
Styling Android
3y ago
Regular readers of Styling Android may already be aware that I am very much in favour of using a build server to speed up my builds. In the past, I have documented how I use Mainframer and Mirakle. I have a very meaty 6 core i9 8950HK with 32Gb RAM, and 512Gb SSD running a ..read more