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Beauty Me Case Study: Android Powered By Studio

Beauty Me Case Study: Android Powered By Studio

In previous post, we had talked about iOS app of Beauty Me project. We had used XCode with new and shiny language Swift to provide a modern syntax and configuration for our project. Today, we will talk about Android counterpart. Which will involve the “official” Android IDE from Google: Android

Quickly Create Parcelable Class in Android Studio

Quickly Create Parcelable Class in Android Studio

Passing primitive data types like string, integer, float, etc. through intents is quite easy in Android. All you have to do is put the data with unique key in intents and send it to another activity. If a user wants to send Java objects through intent, Java class should be

Material Design Support Library Tutorial – Part 3

Material Design Support Library Tutorial – Part 3

In material design support library topic, this article is last of series. In this article, I will talk about CollapsingToolbarLayout and show you how to implement CollapsingToolbarLayout in your apps. Collapsing Toolbar Layout If you want to create the toolbar collapsing effect, you must wrap Toolbar inside CollapsingToolbarLayout. The layout

Setup build.gradle to Build Multiple Android APKs

Setup build.gradle to Build Multiple Android APKs

Android is a platform with varies devices and OSes, which make it is more or less interesting with developers. Since Eclipse era, developers want to build multiple Android binary with multiple resources while sharing same code base. We have achieved this by using Ant script to invoke many complex commands,

Extract Prominent Colors For Android Apps With Palette

Extract Prominent Colors For Android Apps With Palette

In Android Lollipop, a new defining features of material design is the use of color. You can get more infomation in here: Material Design Color In this article, I will show you how to extract prominent colors from a bitmap for customizing UI. I also have a sample for you

Get SHA1 Code for Implementing Google Maps on Android

Get SHA1 Code for Implementing Google Maps on Android

If you intend implement Google Maps on Android application, you must have a Google Maps API key. To use the Google Maps Android API v2, you must register your app project on the Google Developers Console and get a Google API key which you can add to your app. Arcording

Retrieve SupportMapFragment on Android Fragment

Retrieve SupportMapFragment on Android Fragment

Today, I implement a sample to show Google Maps on Android Fragment. I have an activity (MainActivity), two fragments contained in MainActivity is InfoFragment and MapFragment. In MapFragment, I attach a MapFragment in layout file. Jul 14, 2015 2 min read

Implement ListViewHeader with Parallax Scrolling

Implement ListViewHeader with Parallax Scrolling

I talked about parallax scrolling, today I will write a post about example to demonstrate ListView Header with parallax effect. [ If you want to make ListViewHeader with parallax effect, you can follow step by step: 1. Create a new android project 2. Declare MainActivity layout file (activity_main.xml) 3.

GridView Transition for Image Gallery

GridView Transition for Image Gallery

Today, I make an example to show how to create transition for GridView image gallery on Android. In the example, I create custom bitmap scale when gridview item clicked by user. Let’s take a look at the following demo of GridView transition: Main flow of this example: * When GridView’

Parallax Scrolling On Android

Parallax Scrolling On Android

Recently, I had used an Android app and I can see it was so beautiful. The app have many visual effects, one of them is parallax scrolling. I decide to spend time for studying about this effect, and how can it affect the overall user experience of a mobile app.