SwipeRefreshLayout is used to implement drop-down refresh effect in android. It commonly used with ListView, RecyclerView or ScrollView etc. The view object should be scrollable and should be the only child component under it. When you pull down the screen to a certain height from screen top, it will show the refresh indicator. If the […]
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android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout is used to wrap android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar component. It can make the Toolbar avoid being overlapped by ListView or RecyclerView controls in the screen.
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Android CardView is a component that is used to implement the card layout effect. It is provided in the appcompat-v7 library. Use CardView, you can add a circle corner and shadow effect to the card frame. In this example, we will list some car images with text in a recycler view using grid layout manager.
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Floating Action Button is an image button which float on the screen surface. It will stay in one place when screen scroll. Commonly the floating button is placed at the bottom right of the screen. Snackbar is a bar which will prompt up from screen bottom. It is a method to show message to client
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This example will show you how to make an android floating action button hide and show when the user scrolls a recycler view. android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton class is used to implement the floating action button. It is supported by the android material design support library, so before starting, make sure you have added the below dependence library
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This example show you how to use android.support.design.widget.NavigationView to implement sliding menu when user slide screen or click home icon. It is also based on android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout and use the NavigationView as the content for slide out menu.
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android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout is a android layout which follow material design pattern. It is used to implement slide in / out menu animation in android application. This article will show you an example about how to use it.
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Android material design is a new design pattern which google recommends. And Google provides some built-in widgets in it’s design support library to follow this pattern. android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar is just one commonly used widget in that library, it behaves like ActionBar, and google suggests you use Toolbar to replace ActionBar in your android app.
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This example will show you how to create a download manager to download files from a url in the android application. It uses android’s activity, foreground service, AsyncTask, and notification, etc.
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When you start an android service in android’s activity, the service runs in the activity main thread. If the service is time-consuming, then the main thread will be blocked. So we had better start a child thread in the service object, this can make your activity execute smoothly.
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