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Improving User Interaction with the Android ActionBar

In this course we look at how to provide a rich user experience by taking full advantage of the ActionBar in your apps.

Jim Wilson - Pluralsight course - Improving User Interaction with the Android ActionBar
by Jim Wilson

What you'll learn

The ActionBar incorporates a variety of previously disparate user interaction concepts into a single control. The ActionBar provides one-stop shopping for menu management, home and back behavior, tabbed displays, screen layout adaptability, and many more user interaction concepts. In this course we look at how to provide a rich user experience by taking full advantage of the ActionBar in your apps.

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Jim Wilson - Pluralsight course - Improving User Interaction with the Android ActionBar
Jim Wilson

Jim Wilson is president of JW Hedgehog, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in solutions for the Android, iOS, and Microsoft platforms. Jim has over 30 years of software engineering experience, with the past 15 years heavily focused on creating mobile device and location-based solutions.

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