Previously in this series we’ve looked at a number of different things that we can do to begin applying some principles of material design to our apps. In this concluding article in this series we’ll turn our attention to Activity transitions which are an important part of material design as they are designed to provide…
Category: Material Design
Material – Part 7
In the previous article we began looking at how RecyclerView makes life an awful lot easier when dragging list items to alter their position. We looked at how we can generate a bitmap of the view that we want to drag, and promote it to an overlay layer so that we can move it around…
Material – Part 6
Previously in this series we have applied basic Material design to a simple RSS reader app, and most recently we converted our ListView to the new RecyclerView. However, at the conclusion of the previous article, we had completed this migration but the net result in terms of UI was zero – the behaviour was exactly…
Material – Part 5
The the previous article we began the migration from ListView to RecyclerView by moving our Adapter implementation to RecyclerView.Adapter. In this article we’ll complete the migration and also find one small, but easily resolved problem along the way.
Material – Part 4
Previously in this series we’ve looked at applying some aspects of Material design to our simple RSS app. In this article we’re going to look at replacing our ListView implementation with RecyclerView. While this won’t have any effect of the user, it will be an enabler which will allow us to apply some more material…
Material – Part 3
In the previous article we applied a colour scheme to our RSS reader app using the appcompat library. In this article we’ll look at styling our text and also take a look at CardView.
Material – Part 2
In the previous article we got a simple app working which is a simple RSS viewer showing a list of recent Styling Android posts, and a detail view when you click on them. In this article we’ll look at applying some material design principles to the app and also try and make it backwards compatible…
Material – Part 1
At the time of writing, the full Lollipop SDK has just been released including new versions of the support libraries which provide some backwards compatibility for implementing material design in to older apps. In this series we’ll take a look at how we can actually apply this to an app.