Amazing things are possible with AnimatedVectorDrawable and regular readers of Styling Android will know that I’m a huge fan of them. Earlier this year I worked on a project for a UK TV broadcaster and produced an AnimatedVectorDrawable of the isometric company logo which went in to the app as an Easter Egg. Sadly I…
Category: Animation
StateListAnimator
One of the fundamental principles of Material Design is “motion provides meaning” and one important area where this applies is giving visual feedback to the user when they interact with our app. The standard method of doing this has always been using StateListDrawable to tie the visual appearance of a control to its state (i.e.…
AnimatedVectorDrawable Bundles
Those that know me and regular readers of Styling Android will be already know that I have a particular passion for moving stuff around, and animating all the things! Quite predictably I’m a big fan of AnimatedVectorDrawable and there was a small addition to this most useful of components that was announced an Google IO…
Vectors For All (finally)
This is the third post in an occasional series looking at the state of VectorDrawable support for Android. The previous articles are Vectors For All (almost) which was followed by Vectors For All (slight return). While these posts show that there has been a big improvement in the VectorDrawable tools available to us, but the…
Indeterminate – Part 5
Indeterminate ProgressBars are a useful tool for communicating to our users that an operation is in progress when we cannot predict how long it is likely to take. Previously on Styling Android we’ve covered how to create a backwardly compatible approximation of the material styled horizontal indeterminate ProgressBar but we haven’t looked at the circular…
Indeterminate – Part 4
Indeterminate ProgressBars are a useful tool for communicating to our users that an operation is in progress when we cannot predict how long it is likely to take. Previously on Styling Android we’ve covered how to create a backwardly compatible approximation of the material styled horizontal indeterminate ProgressBar but we haven’t looked at the circular…
Indeterminate – Part 3
Indeterminate ProgressBars are a useful tool for communicating to our users that an operation is in progress when we cannot predict how long it is likely to take. Previously on Styling Android we’ve covered how to create a backwardly compatible approximation of the material styled horizontal indeterminate ProgressBar but we haven’t looked at the circular…
Indeterminate – Part 2
Indeterminate ProgressBars are a useful tool for communicating to our users that an operation is in progress when we cannot predict how long it is likely to take. Previously on Styling Android we’ve covered how to create a backwardly compatible approximation of the material styled horizontal indeterminate ProgressBar but we haven’t looked at the circular…
Indeterminate – Part 1
Indeterminate ProgressBars are a useful tool for communicating to our users that an operation is in progress when we cannot predict how long it is likely to take. Previously on Styling Android we’ve covered how to create a backwardly compatible approximation of the material styled horizontal indeterminate ProgressBar but we haven’t looked at the circular…
Snowfall
Ho, ho, ho. ‘Tis the season to be jolly, and all that malarkey. As the publication date for this post is Christmas Day 2015, it seems only fitting that we should cover something festive on Styling Android. For those reading who do not celebrate Christmas, and those who are reading this post in June –…