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Building Android UIs with Custom Views

By : Raimon Ràfols Montane
Book Image

Building Android UIs with Custom Views

By: Raimon Ràfols Montane

Overview of this book

To build great user interfaces for your Android apps that go beyond the standard UI elements, you need to use custom Android views. With these, you can give your app a distinctive look and ensure that it functions properly across multiple devices. This book will help you construct a great UI for your apps by teaching you how to create custom Android views. You will start by creating your first Android custom view and go through the design considerations. You will then see how the right choices will enable your custom view to perform seamlessly across multiple platforms and Android versions. You will create custom styleable attributes that work with Android XML layouts, learn to process touch events, define custom attributes, and add properties and events to them. By the end of this book, you will be able to create apps with custom views that are responsive and adaptable to make your app distinctive and an instant hit with its users.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Using Android SDK Classes

So far, we've seen how to create our own animations, using time-based animations or using a fixed time step mechanism. But Android provides us several ways of doing animations using its SDK and the animation framework. In most cases, we can simplify our animations by just using the property animator system instead of creating our own, but that will depend, always, on the complexity of what we want to achieve and how we want to tackle the development.

For more information please refer to the property animation framework from the Android developer's documentation website.

ValueAnimator

As part of the property animator system, we have the ValueAnimator class. We can use it to simply animate...