Developing Android Applications with Kotlin: Custom Views Playbook
Adding customized views and components to your app will set it apart from the crowd. In this course, you will learn three foundational techniques for creating any view you can imagine.
What you'll learn
As you develop Android apps, you will discover that the default Android views and widgets almost always fall short. While these components are a great start, you will need to add customized components to maximize your app’s potential. In this course, Android Apps with Kotlin: Custom Views, you will gain the ability to to build any view you can imagine. First, you will learn how to combine basic Android views into compound components. Next, you will discover the benefits of extending existing views to add your own unique style. Finally, you will explore how to build a custom view from the ground up by extending the View class. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of creating custom views needed to build world-class Android apps.
Table of contents
- Extending Views 1m
- Intro to Extending Views 3m
- Customizing Existing Views 6m
- Intro to the Canvas 7m
- Coping with Clipping 3m
- Using Custom Attributes 1m
- Selecting No Color 1m
- Extended View Communication 2m
- Considerations When Extending Views 3m
- Supporting Different Screen Sizes 4m
- Compound Component vs. Extended View 1m
- Summary 1m
About the author
Brendan is an Android and game developer. He has a passion for well designed, engaging software. He was a designer and engineer for the game Magnetic by Nature (https://store.steampowered.com/app/296510/Magnetic_By_Nature/). He is experienced with Android in the Enterprise and spoke and Google's AFW event in London in 2017. His interests include game theory and design, enterprise Android development and entrepreneurship. When Brendan isn't working on a coding project, he's probably gaming with f... more