Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Android 6 Essentials

You're reading from   Android 6 Essentials Design, build, and create your own applications using the full range of features available in Android 6

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884412
Length 122 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Tools
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Yossi Elkrief Yossi Elkrief
Author Profile Icon Yossi Elkrief
Yossi Elkrief
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Summary


We learned about a newly added feature, Chrome custom tabs, which allows us to embed web content into our application and modify the UI. Chrome custom tabs allow us to provide a fuller, faster in-app web experience for our users. We use the Chrome engine under the hood, which allows faster loading than regular WebViews or loading the entire Chrome (or another browser) application.

We saw that we can preload pages in the background, making it appear as if our data is blazing fast. We can customize the look and feel of our Chrome tab so that it matches our app. Among the changes we saw were the toolbar color, transition animations, and even the addition of custom actions to the toolbar.

Custom tabs also benefit from Chrome features such as saved passwords, autofill, tap to search, and sync; these are all available within a custom tab. For developers, integration is quite easy and requires only a few extra lines of code in the basic level. The support library helps with more complex integration...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime
Banner background image