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Skip to content Styling Android A technical guide to improving the UI and UX of Android apps About License Information Privacy Policy Search for: AnimatedIcons: Visibility V3 February 12, 2021 February 12, 2021 Mark Allison No comment There is a nice micro-animation library at useanimations.com which contains some useful icon animations. These are all free to use and downloadable at Lottie animations. For those that already use Lottie they can use these animations as-is. It may not be possible to use them in apps which don’t use Lottie, or if there’s no designer that… Continue Reading Broken Material Theme February 5, 2021 January 30, 2021 Mark Allison No comment When is a Material theme not a Material theme? That may sound like the first line of a joke, but it is actually a real problem I faced recently. It caused me much noggin scratching until I chanced upon the cause. And you’ll have to wait until the end of the article for the punch… Continue Reading Currency Converter: Improvements January 29, 2021 January 26, 2021 Mark Allison No comment In the previous series, we looked at the overall design of a personal project that I put together. The app obtains the balance from my Transferwise Borderless account (in USD) plus the current exchange rates. It displays this in an App Widget which the user can place on the home screen. While the app works,… Continue Reading Currency Converter: UI January 22, 2021 January 23, 2021 Mark Allison No comment At the end of 2020, I published a post on displaying currency conversion rates on a LaMetric Time smart clock. That solution only worked when I was working in my home office because that’s where the LaMetric Time lives. So I decided to build something similar on Android for other times. The app I produced… Continue Reading CurrencyConverter: Not Cutting Corners January 15, 2021 January 15, 2021 Mark Allison No comment At the end of 2020, I published a post on displaying currency conversion rates on a LaMetric Time smart clock. That solution only worked when I was working in my home office because that’s where the LaMetric Time lives. So I decided to build something similar on Android for other times. The app I produced… Continue Reading CurrencyConverter: Cutting Corners January 8, 2021 December 31, 2020 Mark Allison No comment At the end of 2020, I published a post on displaying currency conversion rates on a LaMetric Time smart clock. That solution only worked when I was working in my home office because that’s where the LaMetric Time lives. So I decided to build something similar on Android for other times. The app I produced… Continue Reading Hacky New Year January 1, 2021 December 21, 2020 Mark Allison No comment Sometimes all we need is a dirty hack. I’m not talking about production apps, but personal projects where properly engineering things gains me little value. This article has no content or techniques specific to Android, but there will be a follow-up post which does. Continue Reading MaterialTimePicker December 25, 2020 December 19, 2020 Mark Allison No comment Material Design Components version 1.3.0-alpha02 for Android introduced a new MaterialTimePicker component. It is an easy to use component, but, at the time of writing (mid-December 2020), there is one gotcha. In this article we’ll take a look at how to use it. We’ll also look at the gotcha with an easy workaround. Continue Reading KTX: Miscellaneous December 18, 2020 January 21, 2021 Mark Allison 1 Comment KTX is a series of Kotlin extension functions for Android that first appeared in February 2018. They can simplify many repetitive tasks or those which require boilerplate code. However, they are not always easy to discover. I find it useful to periodically scan through the list here. I find this a good way of discovering… Continue Reading KTX: Graphics December 11, 2020 January 21, 2021 Mark Allison No comment KTX is a series of Kotlin extension functions for Android that first appeared in February 2018. They can simplify many repetitive tasks or those which require boilerplate code. However, they are not always easy to discover. I find it useful to periodically scan through the list here. 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