I recently encountered a rather strange problem when tidying up an existing layout whereby a button started behaving oddly once I had cleaned up the layout. Once I understood what was happening it was pretty easy to get it fixed up, but the initial behaviour was somewhat baffling at first.
Category: Button
Dirty Phrasebook – Part 4
On 1st April 2015 I published a joke app to Google Play named Dirty Phrasebook which is based upon Monty Python’s Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook sketch. In this series of articles we’ll take a look in to the code (which will be open-sourced along with the final article). In this article we’ll look at the custom…
Floating Action Button – Part 3
In the previous article we animated our Floating Action Button between two states and in this concluding article we’ll create some mini actions which will be shown and hidden depending on the state of the FAB itself.
Floating Action Button – Part 2
In the previous article we constructed a simple implementation of a Floating Action Button which conformed to the material design guidelines in terms of being elevated above the background (with the appropriate shadow) and rising to meet your finger when it is touched. In this article we’ll turn our attention to animating the icon to…
Floating Action Button – Part 1
One of the many new design patterns introduced as part of material design is the Floating Action Button. However, at the time of writing, there is isn’t a control baked in to Android to achieve this, so in this series we’ll look at how to implement a FAB which conforms to the material guidelines.
State List Drawables
In the last article we covered the styling of a dialog box using vector drawables. In this article we are going to add a cancel button to that dialog box, and style the button. Styling widgets is a little more complex that the static styling that we’ve previously covered because widgets change state depending on…