AnimatedIcons: Heart

There is a nice micro-animation library at useanimations.com which contains some useful icon animations. These are all free to use and downloadable at Lottie animations. For those that already use Lottie they can use these animations as-is. It may not be possible to use them in apps which don’t use Lottie, or if there’s no designer that…

MotionLayout: Dynamic Toolbar

Regular readers of Styling Android may have guessed that I rather enjoy animating things. MotionLayout offers amazing scope for animations and it’s possible to create some really interesting animations using it. We’ve looked at how to implement a Collapsing Toolbar previously on Styling Android, but we’re not limited to just mimicking existing behaviours which can…

LocationServices

Many apps offer functionality based upon the location of the device running the app. The tools for obtaining device location have been around since API 1, but they have evolved a little over the years – one big change was moving them in to Play Services. However, this change came with a cost: Establishing a…

Palette – Part 2

In the previous article we began looking at the new Palette library which was introduced as part of the Android-L developer preview (but will be available in a support library with compatibility back to API 7) which enables us to extract colour information from bitmaps. We got our image loading working so we’l now turn…