Ho, ho, ho. ‘Tis the season to be jolly, and all that malarkey. As the publication date for this post is Christmas Day 2015, it seems only fitting that we should cover something festive on Styling Android. For those reading who do not celebrate Christmas, and those who are reading this post in June –…
Vectors For All (slight return)
Regular readers of Styling Android will know of my love of VectorDrawable and AnimatedVectorDrawable. While (at the time of writing) we’re still waiting for VectorDrawableCompat so we can only use them on API 21 (Lollipop) and later. However, Android Studio keeps added some backwards compatibility to the build tools so we can actually begin to…
User Identity – Part 3
Sometimes it is necessary to validate a user’s identity in order to provide access to sensitive information within an app. The traditional mechanism of a username and password has always been rather clunky on mobile because of small screens and soft keyboards. However with the arrival of hardware such as fingerprint scanners arriving on devices,…
User Identity – Part 2
Sometimes it is necessary to validate a user’s identity in order to provide access to sensitive information within an app. The traditional mechanism of a username and password has always been rather clunky on mobile because of small screens and soft keyboards. However with the arrival of hardware such as fingerprint scanners arriving on devices,…
User Identity – Part 1
Sometimes it is necessary to validate a user’s identity in order to provide access to sensitive information within an app. The traditional mechanism of a username and password has always been rather clunky on mobile because of small screens and soft keyboards. However with the arrival of hardware such as fingerprint scanners arriving on devices,…
AppBar – Part 4
The AppBar is an evolution of the ActionBar which provides us with a rich toolbox for defining and customising the behaviour. All apps will have different requirements for their AppBars and each app may have different AppBar implementations in different Activities. In this series, rather than look at the AppBar implementations themselves, we’re going to…
AppBar – Part 3
The AppBar is an evolution of the ActionBar which provides us with a rich toolbox for defining and customising the behaviour. All apps will have different requirements for their AppBars and each app may have different AppBar implementations in different Activities. In this series, rather than look at the AppBar implementations themselves, we’re going to…
AppBar – Part 2
The AppBar is an evolution of the ActionBar which provides us with a rich toolbox for defining and customising the behaviour. All apps will have different requirements for their AppBars and each app may have different AppBar implementations in different Activities. In this series, rather than look at the AppBar implementations themselves, we’re going to…
AppBar – Part 1
The AppBar is an evolution of the ActionBar which provides us with a rich toolbox for defining and customising the behaviour. All apps will have different requirements for their AppBars and each app may have different AppBar implementations in different Activities. In this series, rather than look at the AppBar implementations themselves, we’re going to…
Material ProgressBar
At the time of writing I am working with the good folks at Novoda on an on-demand video streaming app for UK broadcaster Channel 4. One of the designs which I was asked to implement was a standard indeterminate ProgressBar with a material styling. While this was easy for Lollipop and later, the app needs…