Android
BlurImageView - DSLR Unfocusing Animation
How to develop BlurImageView? Discovering Material Design gave me a chance to play with animations and image effects. While watching Chiu Ki Chan presentation—Fun with Android Shaders and Filters. I got an idea to create the focus loss effect, well known from the DSLR cameras—blurring the image with simultaneous enlarging it...
Appawards 2014 - TPN wins the prize!
We’re very happy to announce that our application – Tatra Mountain National Park – was chosen by the internauts this years best Android app in the Education category. The crowd vote was held as a part of the Appaward contest organised by the antyweb.pl. Appaward is an annual polish app contest, divided in two parts: internauts vote, and jury vote.
Getting Material Design for Pre-Lollipop Devices with AppCompat v21
With the recent release of Android Lollipop SDK, new Material Design became widely available for users and developers. Google re-designed Android layouts with a new “visual language”, that provides a consistent, elegant, and very plausible user experience. It’s achieved through ripple touch feedback, cards, view transition animations, and view's elevation API, which uses shadows to determine view's parent in depth space. Developers were also given great design guidelines for typography (Roboto at it’s best), colour Palettes, spacing, and views usability (like button usage, dialogs, or animating visual feedback) connected with good explanation of users expectation to the overall app usage experience.
Good time of Android Team
Last week was really interesting for our Android team. We hosted the second meeting of Poznan Android Developer Group and participated in DevFest in Krakow.