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…
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View Binding: Merge
View Binding was introduced in 2019 and is really nice. I have written about it before. However I recently discovered a small gotcha that is easy to work around, but it did me a frighten when I first encountered it, and is not, at the time of writing, mentioned in the official documentation. In this…
Blogging: Ideation
On 28th March 2011 I published the first ever blog post to Styling Android. Almost 9 years later there are now, as this is published, some 458 published articles. When I first started out, I did not have a clue what I was doing, and some might say I still don’t! After writing so many…
Animated Icons: Burger Menu
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…
AnimatedIcons: Search / X
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…
Motion Vectors
Regular readers of Styling Android will not be surprised to hear that I rather like animations. A couple of really useful tools for creating nice animations are AnimatedVectorDrawable (AVD), and MotionLayout and it should come as no surprise that I am a big fan of both. But using them together is not easy. In this…
AnimatedIcons: Arrow * 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…
Kotlin: Serialization – Update
Last week I published an article covering the kotlinx.serialisation library and how it had the potential to overcome the issue of Kotlin object serialization using Java Serialization not correctly handling the object singleton implementation which under-pins Kotlin objects. However, at the time I wrote that article, Kotlin sealed class hierarchies were not supported by kotlinx.serialisation,…
Kotlin: Serialization
After chatting with Sebastiano Poggi about the issues with using Kotlin objects that I covered in a recent post, he made the interesting suggestion that possibly kotlinx.serialization might work better than the Java implementation because it is faster, more flexible (we can use different serialisation formats such as JSON or Protobuf), and is built with…
AnimatedIcons: Max / Min
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…