Category Archives: Android
Placing a Floating Action Button on a seam
Posted by on June 15, 2015
Material Design guidelines suggest placing Floating Action Buttons on seams. Android layouts doesn’t help much with that. The only way is to measure a layout manually and offset the FAB using margins. Let’s see how to do that in a better way.
Carbon’s roadmap, bugfixing and the future plans
Posted by on June 15, 2015
Recently I was asked about Carbon’s roadmap, future features and thoughts about the new Design Support Library. Here are the answers.
Design Support Library vs Carbon
Posted by on June 8, 2015
Since end of May there’s a new compatibility library available for all interested in using Material Design on older Android platforms. It can be found on the official Android Developers blog. Let’s see what’s new and compare the new support lib with Carbon.
Material Design and designers
Posted by on May 15, 2015
Material Design introduced widget tinting, automatic shadows, and vector graphics. The default icons and widgets are nice and the guidelines are very strict. It’s possible to create any app much faster than before. Does it mean that graphic artists and designers are out of job?
The library goes open-source
Posted by on February 7, 2015
Encouraged by a friend I decided to open-source the library.
Loading images pattern
Posted by on January 22, 2015
Usually any fade is much better than a hard cut, but I must admit I’m bored with fades. That’s why I like the fading animation designed by Google for loading images in material apps. It breaks the monotony of simple animations in image-heavy screens, like galleries. It’s also pretty easy to implement.
Colored status bar
Posted by on January 8, 2015
I’m a big fan of compact, reusable components – good at doing one thing and nothing more. Material Design and Android Lollipop introduce colored status and navigation bars. Let’s take a closer look at this feature.
Material library goes public
Posted by on January 1, 2015
Material Design was announced months after I started thinking about recording apps. It’s a side project, but for today it’s more advanced than the main part of the recording library. That’s why I decided to publish it for free.
Custom attribute in a style
Posted by on December 28, 2014
It’s easy to style Android views using built-in attributes, styles and themes. But how can one create a style for a custom view with custom attributes?
SVG icons and the SVGView
Posted by on December 4, 2014
When we think about Android application icons, usually PNGs are the first thing that comes to mind. However, vector graphics has several advantages over bitmaps – the images are smaller in size, they scale better and can be morphed easier. Why don’t we use SVGs?
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