Posts on Android Essence

Many of the posts on this site so far deal with nuanced tricks such as RecyclerView swiping/drag and drops, and often make the assumption that the reader has already worked with the Android UI.

When it comes to making an app, some of the biggest struggles developers face is outside of the code itself.

The RecyclerView.Adapter class is used to bind a dataset to a RecyclerView to be displayed to a user.

layout: post author: adam title: Using Elevation In Android Applications description: Discussion of some of the best ways to handle elevation in your Android application. modified: 2015-09-15 published: true tags: [elevation, material design] categories:…

In my last post I broke down the differences between the RecyclerView and a ListView.

Before continuing this post, I recommend that you read my previous one on Swipe To Dismiss RecyclerView Items as this will build upon the ItemTouchHelper class discussed there.

Introduced in API 21 (Android 5.0), along with other MaterialDesign components, was the RecyclerView widget.

The singleton design pattern is a design that limits the instantiation of a class to a single object.

One of my favorite components introduced with Material Design is the FloatingActionButton (FAB).