Data Backup – Part 2

In the first article in this series we had a first look at Android Data Backup. We got a simple app working which successfully stored its SharedPreferences in the cloud and restored them we the app was re-installed. Thee was one problem, however: If we manually triggered a restore of the SharedPreferences, we did not…

Data Backup – Part 1

Normally on Styling Android I try and stick to UI / UX tips and techniques, but in this series of articles I’m going to cover a topic that is not directly UI / UX specific yet, if implemented, can delight your users: using Android Data Backup to backup and restore app settings / config to…

Presenter – Part 6

In previous articles in this series we have looked at the app that I used for my presentation at AndroidConf Brasil 2011. In this concluding part we’ll have a look at some of the animations that were used throughout the presentation.

Presenter – Part 5

Previously in this series we have looked at the custom controls that are used in the app that I used for my presentation at AndroidConf Brasil 2011. Now that we’ve got a lot of the dry code out of the way, we can begin to explore the slide layouts to see how we combine those…

Presenter – Part 4

Previously in this series we’ve dissected the app that I used for my presentation at AndroidConf Brasil 2011. In this part we’ll look at the final custom control. In order to understand what’s going on, you really need to have read the previous articles in this series as some of the concepts (such as slide…

Presenter – Part 3

Previously in this series we’ve looked at the app that I used for my presentation at AndroidConf Brasil 2011. In this part we’ll have a look at the custom controls used to manage the individual slides

Presenter – Part 2

In Part 1 of this series we began our look at the code for the app that I used for my presentation on Android layouts at AndroidConf Brasil 2011. Previously we had begun our look at a custom layout named DisplayLayout which is the layout which holds the slides in the presentation. We’ll continue with…

Presenter – Part 1

On 26th November 2011 I presented a keynote at AndroidConf Brasil about Android layouts. For my presentation, I used a custom Android application running on a Samsung Galaxy 10.1 Tablet instead of the more traditional Powerpoint / KeyNote approach. Instead of publishing my slides following my presentation, I am publishing a “lite” version of this…

GridLayout – Part 1

In a recent series of articles, we covered he basic layout types supported by Android. Since those articles were written Google have released the Android 4.0 SDK and there is a new addition: GridLayout. In this series of articles we’ll have a look at GridLayout and explore the way it works to get a feel…