Writing a Christmas themed blog post has become something of an annual tradition for Styling Android. This year I am extremely pleased to inflict Christmas Face on to the world. Christmas Face is a simple app which allows the user to magically transform themself in to either Santa Claus or an elf. Last year’s Christmas…
Month: December 2017
Christmas Face – Part 1
Writing a Christmas themed blog post has become something of an annual tradition for Styling Android. This year I am extremely pleased to inflict Christmas Face on to the world. Christmas Face is a simple app which allows the user to magically transform themself in to either Santa Claus or an elf. Last year’s Christmas…
Task Stack
There are often occasions when we need to take the user to a specific Activity and / or piece of content within an app. A typical use-case for this is a notification where tapping on the notification should launch the app directly to a specific place. In the recent series or Oreo Notification Channels we…
Oreo Notifications: Channels – Part 2
In what seems to be an annual traditions for Styling Android, we’er going to look at the changes to Notifications in the latest version of Android which is, at the time of writing, Oreo 8.1 (API 27). While there aren’t widespread changes to Notifications as there have been in previous Android versions, there are some…
Oreo Notifications: Channels – Part 1
In what seems to be an annual traditions for Styling Android, we’er going to look at the changes to Notifications in the latest version of Android which is, at the time of writing, Oreo 8.1 (API 27). While there aren’t widespread changes to Notifications as there have been in previous Android versions, there are some…