Learn the basics of drawing with the Android Canvas Class Diving into using the Android Canvas class can unlock magical super powers you never knew you had 🤯. Imagine being able to draw anything* your heart desires just with some basic shapes, paths and bitmaps? Well, the Android Canvas gives you just that ability. What is […]
Learn how to use physics-based animations in a Custom View implementation for natural looking animations in your app. You’ve used all the standard Android animation techniques, but you find that they sometimes just don’t give you that extra sparkle you are looking for. You’ve wondered how to get more natural looking animations and had no luck […]
Learn how to use the Android KTX extension functions to clean up Canvas drawing code Have you ever wanted to write a Custom View on Android but you were too afraid to deal with X, Y translations on a Canvas object? Well, working with them got a whole lot easier when using Kotlin and the Android […]
Learn how using ViewModels can help create great user experiences on ChromeOS This post originally appeared here. Supporting ChromeOS devices sounds like a large undertaking with many unknowns. If you didn’t know already, ChromeOS allows users to install Android Apps on their devices. This is great news for ChromeOS users since it unlocks a huge amount of apps […]
MotionLayout is a layout class that extends from ConstraintLayout. MotionLayout has all the features of ConstraintLayout. On top of that, it also provides the ability to easily animate changes to your UI, without needing to know much about UI interactions and the Android Animation Frameworks. Take for example this subtle animation of a view being […]