With a specific client application, we had to apply the customer’s “brand” font for all controls of the UI. It was quite a custom project, a heavily branded UI request. Seems to be a common enough font request right? Yeah, I was thinking the same. But then I was surprised that Android doesn’t provide simple and elegant way to do this. So, in this blog post, I’ll show you what option we have by default on…
ViewPager scrolling downside. I truly like Android ViewPager component. It can be used in so many ways: from app navigation to gallery like screens. On the other hand, ViewPager is not very useful whether or not it’s nested right proper into a container with vertical scrolling. For example ViewPager within ScrollView or ListView with ViewPager as a listing merchandise view. Say for instance: you drag the ViewPager‘s internet web page to view the next one, and aghhh the horizontal scrolling is disrupted and parent vertical scrolling begins. Why is it that…
How to easily extract strings from your Android code into the strings.xml file
This handy little feature can save a lot of time and manual work when working with Android apps. If you during Android development in Eclipse use hard-coded strings in your Java code, like in the example below: package test.layout; import android.app.Activity; import android.os.Bundle; import android.widget.Button; public class LayoutTest extends Activity { private Button btn; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);…
Android offers many exciting possibilities. We at Visual Design round up 10 important tips that will help you make the most of your development time
A smartphone war is flaming, pitched as a neck and neck fight for market share; but I see it in another way. Android is an open base, iphone is a wonderful product, everything else is decor. Android is most interesting in its incarnations outside of what is likely in mobile,…