Creating dynamic UI with android fragments : leverage the power of android fragments to develop dynamic user interfaces for your apps / Jim Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Jim.

Series:

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Android (Electronic resource).

Mobile computing.

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Open source software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (122 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Creating dynamic user interfaces with Android fragments

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Wilson Jim: Jim Wilson is the President of JW Hedgehog, Inc. , a consulting firm specializing in solutions for the Android, iOS, and Microsoft platforms. He has over 30 years of software engineering experience, with the past 15 years heavily focused on creating mobile device and location-based solutions. Jim cofounded multiple software-related startups and has served in a consulting role at several more. After nearly a decade as a Microsoft Device Application Development MVP, he now focuses on developing Android and iOS device applications. Jim's passion is mentoring software developers. He is a regular contributor of Android, iOS, and Xamarin training material at Pluralsight (http: //training. jwhh. com), a leading provider of online developer training. Jim has authored more than 30 articles on device application development and has served as a contributing expert on mobile software development issues for a variety of media outlets. Jim and his wife, along with several cats, split their time between Celebration, Florida (just three miles from Walt Disney World) and Weirs Beach, New Hampshire. You can take a look at his blog (http: //blog. jwhh. com) where he talks about a variety of mobile software development issues as well as the adventures of a life split between the busy region of the "House of Mouse" and the quietness of NH's lakes and mountains. You can reach Jim at androidtraining@jwhh. com.

Summary:

Make your Android apps a superior, silky-smooth experience for the end-user with this comprehensive guide to creating a dynamic and multi-pane UI. Everything you need to know in one handy volume. Learn everything you need to know to provide dynamic multi-screen UIs within a single activity Integrate the rich UI features demanded by today’s mobile users Understand the basics of using fragments and how to use them to create more adaptive and dynamic user experiences In Detail To create a dynamic and multi-pane user interface on Android, you need to encapsulate UI components and activity behaviors into modules that you can swap into and out of your activities. You can create these modules with the fragment class, which behaves somewhat like a nested activity that can define its own layout and manage its own lifecycle. When a fragment specifies its own layout, it can be configured in different combinations with other fragments inside an activity to modify your layout configuration for different screen sizes (a small screen might show one fragment at a time, but a large screen can show two or more). Creating Dynamic UI with Android Fragments shows you how to create modern Android applications that meet the high expectations of today’s users. You will learn how to incorporate rich navigation features like swipe-based screen browsing and how to create adaptive UIs that ensure your application looks fantastic whether run on a low cost smartphone or the latest tablet. This book looks at the impact fragments have on Android UI design and their role in both simplifying many common UI challenges and providing new ways to incorporate rich UI behaviors. You will learn how to use fragments to create UIs that automatically adapt to device differences. We look closely at the roll of fragment transactions and how to work with the Android back stack. Leveraging this understanding, we then explore several specialized fragment-related classes like ListFragment and DialogFragment as well as rich navigation features like swipe-based screen browsing.

Contents:

Intro

Creating Dynamic UI with Android Fragments

Table of Contents

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Fragments and UI Modularization

The need for a new approach to UI creation

The broad platform support of fragments

Fragments simplify common Android tasks

The relationship between fragments and activities

Making the shift to fragments

The old thinking - activity-oriented

Defining the activity appearance

Displaying the activity UI

The new thinking - fragment-oriented

Creating the fragment layout resources

Defining the layout as a reusable list

Minimize assumptions

Encapsulating the display layout

Creating the Fragment class

Wrapping the list in a fragment

Providing the display fragment

Converting the activity to use fragments

Activities and backward compatibility

Summary

2. Fragments and UI Flexibility

Creating UI flexibility

Dynamic fragment layout selection

Adding an alternate layout resource

Managing fragment layout by screen size

Resource screen size groups

Resource screen size qualifiers

Eliminating redundancy

Layout aliasing

Design fragments for flexibility

Avoiding tight coupling

Abstracting fragment relationships

Defining the callback interface

Making the fragment self-contained

Fragment notification

Encapsulating fragment operations

Loosely connecting the pieces

Fragments protect against the unexpected.

Evolving layout resource files

Creating the book description activity

Making the MainActivity class adaptive

3. Fragment Lifecycle and Specialization

Understanding the fragment lifecycle

Understanding fragment setup and display

Avoiding method name confusion

Understanding fragment hide and teardown

Maximizing available resources

Managing a fragment state

Special purpose fragment classes

ListFragment

Associating data with the list

Separating data from display

Creating the ListFragment derived class

Handling ListFragment item selection

Updating the layout resources

DialogFragment

Styles

Layout

DialogFragment display

Event handling

Dialog identity

Accessing Dialog related behavior

Wrapping an existing dialog in a fragment

4. Working with Fragment Transactions

Intentional screen management

Dynamically managing fragments

Deferred execution of transaction changes

Adding and removing fragments

Supporting the back button

Creating an adaptive application layout

Updating the layout to support dynamic fragments

Adapting to device differences

Dynamically loading a fragment at startup

Transitioning between fragments

Eliminating redundant handling

Creating the fragment on-the-fly

Managing asynchronous creation

Putting it all together

5. Creating Rich Navigation with Fragments

A brave new world

Making navigation fun with swipe

Implementing swipe navigation

Managing the swipe fragments

Putting the swipe UI into place

Android Studio and swipe navigation

Improving navigation with the ActionBar

Navigating randomly with tabs

Managing tab selection

Connecting the fragments to the tabs

Providing direct access with drop-down list navigation

Managing fragment selection.

Providing the navigation choices

Android Studio and drop-down list navigation

Index.

Notes:

"Instant : short, fast, focused"--Cover.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 19, 2013).

ISBN:

9781783283101

1783283106

OCLC:

864886670