A fairly common operation in Android apps is the need to download content to the device. While it is easy enough to construct a network call to download the required content, there is also a built in way which can be particularly useful if the content being downloaded should also be shared with other apps,…
DownloadManager – Part 2
A fairly common operation in Android apps is the need to download content to the device. While it is easy enough to construct a network call to download the required content, there is also a built in way which can be particularly useful if the content being downloaded should also be shared with other apps,…
DownloadManager – Part 1
A fairly common operation in Android apps is the need to download content to the device. While it is easy enough to construct a network call to download the required content, there is also a built in way which can be particularly useful if the content being downloaded should also be shared with other apps,…
VectorDrawable PNG
Or The Curious Case of the Disappearing Vectors Regular readers of Styling Android may remember a post a couple of months ago which dealt with some strange renderings of VectorDrawables because of fill winding issues. Recently I encountered another issue with some puzzling rendering of a VectorDrawable, and in this post we’ll take a look…
BottomNavigationView
Version 25.0.0 of the Design support library was published by Google in October 2016 along with the release of the Nougat 7.1 developer preview. A new widget that was introduced in that release named BottomNavigationView which provides a simple way to implement the bottom navigation bar pattern which has been added to the Material Design…
ConstraintLayout Chains – Part 2
Regular readers of Styling Android will know that I’m a big fan of ConstraintLayout. As I write (November 2016) ConstraintLayout is in beta status as beta 3 has just been released and the APIs for the full 1.0 release should now be stable. The previous series on ConstraintLayout covered many aspects of this most useful…
ConstraintLayout Chains – Part 1
Regular readers of Styling Android will know that I’m a big fan of ConstraintLayout. As I write (November 2016) ConstraintLayout is in beta status as beta 3 has just been released and the APIs for the full 1.0 release should now be stable. The previous series on ConstraintLayout covered many aspects of this most useful…
Nougat – Direct Reply
Nougat has now been released in to the wild and there are a number of new features which developers should be considering. In this loosely-related series of articles we’re going to be looking at various aspects of these new features to see how we can best make use of them. In this concluding article we’re…
Nougat – Messaging Style Notifications
Nougat has now been released in to the wild and there are a number of new features which developers should be considering. In this loosely-related series of articles we’re going to be looking at various aspects of these new features to see how we can best make use of them. In this article we’re going…
Nougat – Bundled Notifications
Nougat has now been released in to the wild and there are a number of new features which developers should be considering. In this loosely-related series of articles we’re going to be looking at various aspects of these new features to see how we can best make use of them. In this article we’re going…