Material ProgressBar

At the time of writing I am working with the good folks at Novoda on an on-demand video streaming app for UK broadcaster Channel 4. One of the designs which I was asked to implement was a standard indeterminate ProgressBar with a material styling. While this was easy for Lollipop and later, the app needs…

Curved Motion – Part 2

The Material design guidelines advocate the use of authentic motion and the Play Store app has (at the time of writing) recently had an update to provide curved motion when transitioning from a list into a detail view. In this short series we’ll look at how to implement curved motion.

Simple Animation – Part 2

In the previous article we got a simple animated transition working. You can get the previous source code here. It is worth pointing out that there are some stock animations available to us but, for some reason, in Android 2.3.3 only four are actually made public so that we can actually use them in our…