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Hands-On Android UI Development

By : Jason Morris
Book Image

Hands-On Android UI Development

By: Jason Morris

Overview of this book

A great user interface (UI) can spell the difference between success and failure for any new application. This book will show you not just how to code great UIs, but how to design them as well. It will take novice Android developers on a journey, showing them how to leverage the Android platform to produce stunning Android applications. Begin with the basics of creating Android applications and then move on to topics such as screen and layout design. Next, learn about techniques that will help improve performance for your application. Also, explore how to create reactive applications that are fast, animated, and guide the user toward their goals with minimal distraction. Understand Android architecture components and learn how to build your application to automatically respond to changes made by the user. Great platforms are not always enough, so this book also focuses on creating custom components, layout managers, and 2D graphics. Also, explore many tips and best practices to ease your UI development process. By the end, you'll be able to design and build not only amazing UIs, but also systems that provide the best possible user experience.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
13
Activity Lifecycle

Try it yourself


You've isolated the category picker and the attachment logic into Fragment classes in this chapter; now try writing a Fragment to encapsulate the contents of the first CardView on the screen. Remember to rather push the ClaimItem down into the Fragment instead of having the Fragment push the change events up to the Activity. Name the new Fragment class CaptureClaimDetailsFragment and name its layout resource fragment_capture_claim_details.xml.

You can also try pushing the logic to change the Category of the ClaimItem down into the CategoryPickerFragment in a way similar to how the AttachmentPagerFragment automatically adds new Attachments to the ClaimItem.