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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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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

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

Coordinating the Overview Screen


The Overview screen you built in Chapter 7, Creating Overview Screens, is a perfect candidate for a CoordinatorLayout. To start with, the allowance overview bar can be made to collapse, and unfold as the user scrolls. This allows more space for the claim items on the screen as they are scrolling, and by expanding the overview again when they scroll upward, the user doesn't have to scroll all the way to the top to get the overview back.

This behavior won't just use the CoordinatorLayout, but will also need the help of the AppBarLayout and CollapsingToolbarLayout classes as you'll need to take control of the Material Design scaffolding to make it work. Follow these steps to move the allowance overview into the header bar and make it collapse:

  1. First, open the AndroidManifest file from the manifests folder in the project tree (use the Android perspective).
  2. Find the OverviewActivity entry and add a theme attribute that will tell the system not to provide a system...
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