Welcome to Part 2 of Making life easier with Android Annotations. This time we'll have a look on the ways of using Fragments along with AndroidAnnotations. Anyone who used Android fragments, know how painful it is to create them with arguments that needs to be passed to each instance (to set them to our wish).
Anyone who developed Android applications, knows how easy it is to end up with boilerplate code. Accessing resources, creating services, inflating layouts, instantiating fragments, running separate threads, registering click listeners, it all requires many lines of code.
The Hackaton Challenge - Recently our team took part in the NeedApp Hackaton, organised by the mKlaster and Poznan Economic University. The event was a blast of great ideas, good fun, and inspiring people. Our company was represented by two teams – iOS and Android. iOS app was the finalist of the contest, winning fantastic 3rd prize. More information on this app will soon be available on our blog site.
Material design proposed interesting animation features, that can be seen throughout it’s design guidelines. One of these features is called Flexible Space Header, and today we’re going to take a closer look on how to implement it.
With the new Palette library and Material design, we’re able to create more color-aware applications, implementing color adaptable user interfaces. TL;DR There’s a link to the ColorizeToolbarHelper class at the end of the article. It works out of the box.