With the introduction of ConstraintLayout 2.0, there is an interesting new feature called ConstraintLayoutStates. ConstraintLayoutStates allow you to create a layout with different states and switch between them easily. Typically, most layouts contain a loading state, initial state, end state and error state. Using ConstraintLayoutStates, there is a clean way to switch between these different […]
Tag: android development
This post initially appeared here. After attending DroidCon Italy 2018 last week, I was excited by the presentation from Nick Butcher and Florina Muntenescu. They spoke about many different aspects related to Text on Android including Spans, Colours, and AutoSizing TextViews, but the one thing that caught my eye was Variable Fonts. This was the first time I had heard about […]
In the previous two blog posts I covered how to get setup with testing in Android and we created a sample app that we will be continuing to develop in this blog post. If you missed those two posts, I suggest reading part 1 and part 2.