There is a nice micro-animation library at useanimations.com which contains some useful animations which are particularly well suited for animated icons. These are all free to use and downloadable at Lottie animations. For those that already use Lottie they can use these animations as-is. However using them is apps which don’t use Lottie, or in cases where…
AsyncAndroid: Introduction To Renderscript
I released a video for the AsyncAndroid 2020 and this article contains some additional information on the subject matter of that video. I would strongly suggest that you give it a watch first. There’s also some great content from other folks, so please drop by – it’s all free content.
ConstraintLayout: Sized Align
ConstraintLayout is an extremely powerful thing, but is also somewhat complex because it has a number of different ways of working. For a while I struggled with one specific use-case which I felt must be possible, but could never quite get working as I wanted, and often had to go with a solution which felt…
D8 Desugaring
D8 replaced DX as the default dex compiler in Android Studio (and Android Gradle Plugin) 3.1. It runs faster than DX and produces smaller .dex files, but it’s also capable of some other nice stuff. In this post we’ll look at one of these: desugaring. We’ll explain what that is and what benefits it can…
AnimatedIcons: Mail
There is a nice micro-animation library at useanimations.com which contains some useful animations which are particularly well suited for animated icons. These are all free to use and downloadable at Lottie animations. For those that already use Lottie they can use these animations as-is. However using them is apps which don’t use Lottie, or in cases where…
Android 11: WindowInsets
Getting Window Insets working correctly can be tricky. It’s a subject that we’ve looked at before on Styling Android and we covered some of the complexity involved in that article. With the release of the developer previews of Android 11 there is a new API available for handling Window Insets and they are good! In…
AnimatedIcons: Archive
There is a nice micro-animation library at useanimations.com which contains some useful animations which are particularly well suited for animated icons. These are all free to use and downloadable at Lottie animations. For those that already use Lottie they can use these animations as-is. However using them is apps which don’t use Lottie, or in cases where…
Connectivity
I am a firm believer that everything that we do as app developers should be focused on UX – what the user experiences when using our app. While things like adding analytics gathering may not seem to be UX-related, but insights in to how users are actually using our apps and understanding the churn areas…
AnimatedIcons: Play / Pause Circle
There is a nice micro-animation library at useanimations.com which contains some useful animations which are particularly well suited for animated icons. These are all free to use and downloadable at Lottie animations. For those that already use Lottie they can use these animations as-is. However using them is apps which don’t use Lottie, or in cases where…
Custom Lint Check
Back in November 2019 I wrote about an issue that can cause problems when serialising Kotlin objects. It is one thing to know about this issue, but quite another to find all instances of it in your code and, as importantly, to remember it in code you and the rest of your team add to…