Suleiman's Blog

Working through a complex design problem means holding a lot in my head.

As a developer turned designer, I have always been fascinated with ways to close the gap between design and development.

Choosing to hand-code your UX portfolio can be an ambitious, yet daunting task.

Designing your own UX portfolio can give you an edge to stand out from the crowd.

Our UX portfolio is a key piece of displaying our capabilities as a designer.

Pagination allows loading a long list of data in chunks.

The App Intro or Product Tour is an introductory welcome experience for first-time users to your product.

Pagination is also known as endless or infinite scrolling.

Empty States are often neglected and designed last.

You can now style and customize your Google Maps colors and more.

Picture in Picture or PIP is a feature famously seen on YouTube and Android TV apps.

Material Components are a set of UI components that helps you build Android apps with Material Design.

During the concluded Google I/O 2017, there were some amazing announcements about Android.

Many Android and iOS apps have horizontal scrolling lists.

In this post, we'll look at creating a Material Design style, image Gallery app for Android.

It's become popular to overlay text labels on background images.

One of the new features in Android O is using Custom Font Resources.

The Android O SDK (API 26) dropped recently and the internet went nuts!

A while ago, Google announced something really interesting called the Awareness API.

Stop using those boring loading spinners in your user interfaces.

App Shortcuts were introduced Android Nougat 7.1.

This tutorial is now updated for AndroidX!

Snackbar was introduced in Material Design.

Endless or Infinite scrolling is called pagination.

Let's look at Android Pagination with RecyclerView, using real data from an API.

Pagination (Endless Scrolling or Infinite Scrolling) is a feature common in content-heavy apps.

There are 3 Material Design Onboarding models in Android.

The DayNight Theme was added to AppCompat with the realease of Support Library v23.2.0.

Every Android Developer is familiar with passing data via a Bundle or Intent.

Every time we think of creating a RecyclerView, we dread the amount of code that must go into the adapter.

Android 7 Nougat introduced Multi-Window, a new feature that enables multi-tasking.

Let's look at using the People API in our Android app.

Imagine having access to your contacts including data about them and their connections, via a single API?

One of the newest additions to the Material Design is the Bottom Navigation Bar.

Version 23.2 of the Android Support library is a huge update.

SQLite database is one way to store your app’s data locally in Android.

A hidden gem in Android Support Library, is the built in Swipe to Dismiss functionality.

In this tutorial, learn to create an onboarding experience for your apps with Android ViewPager.

Runtime Permissions is a new permission model introduced in Android Marshmallow 6.0.

Android Marshmallow introduced Chrome Custom Tabs.

Let’s look at how fast we can create a simple image gallery app in Android using Glide.

Since Android Studio 1.4, we can use Vector Assets which was earlier restricted to Lollipop alone.

Material Design has seen the rise in on-scroll animations in Android apps.

So far we've seen use cases for popular design patterns restricted to a handset only.

There's a lot going on about making your Status Bar transparent for your Activities.

I'm sure all of you would have noticed the list style in the Gmail app for Android.

I was looking to get a new phone for a while and wasn't sure what to get.

The launch screen (or splash screen if you prefer), is the first thing your user's going to see.

If you have used the Pinterest app or their website, you would have noticed a rather creative grid layout.

Material Design is all the rage now.