Tools of the trade — Part 2
Grab your tools, we’re on to another adventure in XML-land!
Sebastiano Poggi
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Tools of the trade — Part 1
Get the most out of the tools namespace and be a design-time XML Jedi. In this first part, a tale of distress, and Lint attributes.
Quick Tip: now, ditch those GIFs!
Who said GIFs are cool? …oh, did I? Nevermind!
Quick Tip: create GIFs of your apps
Learn how to grab a video of your app in action, and convert it to a nice GIF that you can use to brag on social networks (or for PRs…)
Material Navigation Drawer sizing
Let’s look at the Material Design specs for the Navigation Drawer, and understand how wide the drawers are supposed to be.
Manipulate colours at runtime
Don’t get scared by “What about having that 10% brighter?”
Animating layout changes
Bring your layouts to life in 5 simple steps!
The mysterious case of the skewed ProgressBar
Yet another instalment in the WTF Files series: progress bars getting skewed...
The mysterious case of the disappearing widget
A strange bug looms in the Samsung Touchwiz launcher...