A common use-case when we’re designing a layout containing a RecyclerView (or, if you’re a glutton for punishment: ListView) is that we may have to display data that is either generated or obtained at runtime. For example, we retrieve the data for the list items from a cloud API. This can make it difficult to…
Tool Time – Part 1
A common use-case when we’re designing a layout containing a RecyclerView (or, if you’re a glutton for punishment: ListView) is that we may have to display data that is either generated or obtained at runtime. For example, we retrieve the data for the list items from a cloud API. This can make it difficult to…
VectorDrawable Gradients – Part2
One of the frustrations of working with VectorDrawable is having to tell designers: “Sorry gradients aren’t supported” when they provide assets which contain gradients which we need to import as VectorDrawable. The options are to either remove the gradients, or to import bitmap images instead. However that has all changed and we now have gradient…
VectorDrawable Gradients – Part1
One of the frustrations of working with VectorDrawable is having to tell designers: “Sorry gradients aren’t supported” when they provide assets which contain gradients which we need to import as VectorDrawable. The options are to either remove the gradients, or to import bitmap images instead. However that has all changed and we now have gradient…
Christmas Face – Part 2
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…
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…
Kotlin: Contexts & SharedPreferences
In advance of a new series of posts which start next week, I ported the code from a previous series of articles to Kotlin. I opted to port the code manually rather than rely on any automated conversions and there are a couple of things worthy of explanation hence this article.