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Hands-On Android UI Development

You're reading from   Hands-On Android UI Development Design and develop attractive user interfaces for Android applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788475051
Length 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jason Morris Jason Morris
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Preface 1. Creating Android Layouts 2. Designing Form Screens FREE CHAPTER 3. Taking Actions 4. Composing User Interfaces 5. Binding Data to Widgets 6. Storing and Retrieving Data 7. Creating Overview Screens 8. Designing Material Layouts 9. Navigating Effectively 10. Making Overviews Even Better 11. Polishing Your Design 12. Customizing Widgets and Layouts 13. Activity Lifecycle
14. Test Your Knowledge Answers

Creating custom styles

When polishing your application, you'll find that certain styling requirements become common over the entire application, but in specific places. For example, the positive / go buttons should have a specific background color that highlights them from the other buttons in the application, or that the negative / delete buttons should have a color that highlights them as destructive for the user.

Android offers you the ability to define your own styles apart from those defined by the system. The theming system in Android is built entirely on top of the styling system. Styles have some very simple attributes:

  • Styles can be named
  • A style can change any attribute exposed in the layout XML file
  • A style can inherit from another style and override its attributes (a bit like classes extending each other)
  • Styles are defined as value resources (a bit like dimensions...
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