Now days usage of tabs in apps, have become a necessity. Being an android developer I have implemented them in many Android apps. But I feel, till date most of the developers don’t know how to implement them correctly. As most of the implementations would make your app crash in […]
One of the most basic UI widgets in Android is an EditText. It is generally used to take inputs from the user. But what it lacked was a label attached to it. Therefore in most of the implementations a hint was used as a label for the EditText. But last […]
When Android 5.0 was released, new design guidelines were also released with it, called material design. Material design in a way revamped the experience of an android user. It introduced many new design patterns and guidelines. But here we’ll discuss only one new UX concept introduced in material design called […]
One of the best things about technology is that it keeps on changing. On the same lines recently some significant improvements were made for Android by the means of support library. The new Design Support Library was included in the support repository. This new Android Design Support library features many […]
When Android 5.0 (Lollipop) version was released, support library v7 was also updated with a new library called Android Palette library. This new library can help you to pick colors from an image dynamically. For example if you are building an image intensive app, where user experience is of prime […]
One of the new APIs introduced in Android 5.0 is the MediaProjection API. According to official documentation this API gives us the ability to capture screen contents with audio recording. As you may know screen cast is one of the new features introduced in Android. This Android MediaProjection API is […]
Android Toolbar widget is one of the new UI components available in AppCompat v21. This widget works just like an ActionBar, the only difference is, it can be placed any where on screen. The Android Toolbar widget can also be used to replace the original ActionBar in your Activity. This […]
As you might be aware, Bluetooth technology has been one of the most used technology when a connection has to be established with a remote device. But this technology also has a major limitation, i.e. high battery consumption. Therefore an improved version of this technology with low energy consumption was […]
Now days when building business apps, or fitness apps, one of the common UI component used is a chart. But drawing a chart through graphics could take a lot of time and would slow down your development. Therefore to fast pace your development, many open source libraries are available online. […]
A new API was released for Android, by the name of Google Places API. This API offers easy to use methods, through which Google Places data can be accessed on Android. The main advantage of this API is, while developing apps, you may not need to parse data from a […]