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

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785882869

Length 294 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Android

Concepts

Android Development

Author (1):

Raimon Ràfols Montane

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER

2. Implementing Your First Custom View

3. Handling Events

4. Advanced 2D Rendering

5. Introducing 3D Custom Views

6. Animations

7. Performance Considerations

8. Sharing Our Custom View

9. Implementing Your Own EPG

10. Building a Charts Component

11. Creating a 3D Spinning Wheel Menu

What you need for this book

In order to follow the examples in this book, you’ll need Android Studio installed. We’ll briefly cover how to install and set up a device emulator in the first chapter. It’s highly recommended to get at least Android Studio 3.0. At the time of writing this book, Android Studio 3.0 is still beta, but stable enough to develop, run, and test all the examples. In addition, our recommendation is to have an Android device to better experience user interactions in the custom views we’ll create, but they will also work in an Android emulator.

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Authors (1)

Ràfols Montane

Raimon Ràfols is a Software Engineer currently living in the Barcelona area. He has been working on mobile devices since the early ages: from monochrome devices to the current smartphones. In all these years he worked in several areas: B2C/B2E/B2B apps, portals and mobile gaming. Due to this broad experience, he has expertise in many technologies and, especially in UI, build systems and client-server communications. He is currently working as Engineering Manager at AXA Group Solutions in Barcelona, taking care of all the engineering and development processes, mobile application quality and leading a small R&D team. In the past, he has been working abroad for Imagination Technologies near London and for Service2Media in the Netherlands. In his spare time he enjoys taking part in hackathons, photography and giving talks in conferences. Raimon has won more than 40 international awards including AngelHack Barcelona 2015, Facebook World Hack Barcelona and 2nd place at js1k 2016. He has been speaking about Java/Android performance and bytecode, Android custom views and about entrepreneurship in several conferences around the world. I would like to thank my girlfriend for her support and understanding during the late night and lengthy writing weekends. Also, I would like to thank my parents and cousin, as without their support and encouragement, I would not be doing what I do today. Last, but not least, I would like to thank everyone that challenged me and help me grow up during my professional career. People like Carlos Carrasco, Alfred Ferrer, Pau Vivancos, Miquel Barceló, David Domingo, Marcel Roorda, Diego Morales, Alberto Chamorro, Teun van Run, Tom van Wietmarschen, Josep Cedó, Joanne Pupo, Jordi Valldaura, Mathieu Sivade, Chris Jakob, Tomas Kustrzynski, Bartłomiej Żarnowski, Radosław Holewa and those I have forgotten to mention here.

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