AnimatedVectorDrawable Bundles

Those that know me and regular readers of Styling Android will be already know that I have a particular passion for moving stuff around, and animating all the things! Quite predictably I’m a big fan of AnimatedVectorDrawable and there was a small addition to this most useful of components that was announced an Google IO…

Vectors For All (finally)

This is the third post in an occasional series looking at the state of VectorDrawable support for Android. The previous articles are Vectors For All (almost) which was followed by Vectors For All (slight return). While these posts show that there has been a big improvement in the VectorDrawable tools available to us, but the…

Indeterminate – Part 2

Indeterminate ProgressBars are a useful tool for communicating to our users that an operation is in progress when we cannot predict how long it is likely to take. Previously on Styling Android we’ve covered how to create a backwardly compatible approximation of the material styled horizontal indeterminate ProgressBar but we haven’t looked at the circular…

Indeterminate – Part 1

Indeterminate ProgressBars are a useful tool for communicating to our users that an operation is in progress when we cannot predict how long it is likely to take. Previously on Styling Android we’ve covered how to create a backwardly compatible approximation of the material styled horizontal indeterminate ProgressBar but we haven’t looked at the circular…

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…