The AppBar is an evolution of the ActionBar which provides us with a rich toolbox for defining and customising the behaviour. All apps will have different requirements for their AppBars and each app may have different AppBar implementations in different Activities. In this series, rather than look at the AppBar implementations themselves, we’re going to…
Month: October 2015
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…
Vectors For All (almost)
Regular readers of Styling Android will know of my love of VectorDrawable and AnimatedVectorDrawable. While (at the time of writing) we’re still waiting for VectorDrawableCompat so we can only use them on API 21 (Lollipop) and later. However, the release of Android Studio 1.4 has just added some backwards compatibility to the build tools so…
Data Binding – Part 5
At Google I/O 2015 a number of new Android libraries and tools were announced. One of them was the all new Data Binding library and in this series we’ll take a look at the library and explore some of the powerful features it provides.
Data Binding – Part 4
At Google I/O 2015 a number of new Android libraries and tools were announced. One of them was the all new Data Binding library and in this series we’ll take a look at the library and explore some of the powerful features it provides.