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Building Android UIs with Custom Views

You're reading from   Building Android UIs with Custom Views Build amazing custom user interfaces with Android custom views

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785882869
Length 294 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Implementing Your Own EPG

So far, we have been building very basic examples to show some of the functionalities and methods that Android provides us with to implement and draw our custom views. In this chapter, we will see a more complex example of a custom view. We'll be building an Electronic Programming Guide (EPG).

An EPG is a fairly complex component to build, and if done wrong, can have an impact on the user experience. For example, if it doesn't perform well, it'll feel sluggish and tedious to use.

We'll be using several things we have covered in previous chapters. All together it can be a bit too much, but we will be building it step by step, and, in more detail, we will cover:

  • How to build a basic EPG custom view
  • How to add basic animations and interactions
  • How to allow zooming
  • Making it configurable
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