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One of the best Material Design’s component is the Collapsing Toolbar. Many android apps use this concept as it brings simplicity, elegance and beauty to the screen. Using images is a great practice in general, mobile screens are much smaller so less images can fit in. Showing an image as the main header and collapsing it when the user scrolls, allows us to show more above the fold content in less space.
Making long story short, this is the final result…
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There comes a time on almost every app life cycle where the owners ask themselves how can we engage more customers. One of the best action you can do to improve your app downloads rate is to translate it into several different languages. Languages written Left to Right are easy, just add a another strings.xml file, translate all your texts there and you’re done. But what about Right to Left languages? this could be a bit tricky.
Right to left languages usually require your elements to be placed on the opposite order, creating a separate view file for each screen is definitely something you can do, but it’s not going to be scalable as your app grows.
Luckily android 4.2 is now fully supports Right to left languages, I’ll explain each step on how to achieve that.
How many times the alarm woke you up before sunrise? only to find out that there is no traffic, arriving at the office way before your first meeting.
TimeIt checks the traffic periodically and based on your current location and other inputs updates your alarms, the result is you’ll never late or waste time on daily routes calculations.
Google places API is defiantly one of the coolest API out there. It allows you to query for registered locations and get useful information about them. The base places API supports 3 majors actions you can do:
This tutorial will show how to add the Autocomplete input. The places list is repopulated with relevant places results according to the search value.
Floating action buttons are awesome. They are clean, intuitive, simple and most of all, they are always there when you need them. As Google’s material design keeps improving, the floating action buttons (FAB) are getting more and more popular, adding them to your android app is no longer a complicated task.
