Creating dynamic UI with android fragments : leverage the power of android fragments to develop dynamic user interfaces for your apps

Creating dynamic UI with android fragments leverage the power of android fragments to develop dynamic user interfaces for your apps

Make your Android apps a superior, silky-smooth experience for the end-user with this comprehensive guide to creating a dynamic and multi-pane UI. Everything you need to know in one handy volume. Learn everything you need to know to provide dynamic multi-screen UIs within a single activity Integrate...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wilson, Jim (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing 2013.
Edición:1st edition
Colección:Community experience distilled
Materias:
Android (Electronic resource)
Mobile computing.
Application software > Development.
Open source software.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628051106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Creating Dynamic UI with Android Fragments
  • Table of Contents
  • Creating Dynamic UI with Android Fragments
  • Credits
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Reviewers
  • www.PacktPub.com
  • Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
  • Why Subscribe?
  • Free Access for Packt account holders
  • Preface
  • What this book covers
  • What you need for this book
  • Who this book is for
  • Conventions
  • Reader feedback
  • Customer support
  • Downloading the example code
  • Errata
  • Piracy
  • Questions
  • 1. Fragments and UI Modularization
  • The need for a new approach to UI creation
  • The broad platform support of fragments
  • Fragments simplify common Android tasks
  • The relationship between fragments and activities
  • Making the shift to fragments
  • The old thinking - activity-oriented
  • Defining the activity appearance
  • Displaying the activity UI
  • The new thinking - fragment-oriented
  • Creating the fragment layout resources
  • Defining the layout as a reusable list
  • Minimize assumptions
  • Encapsulating the display layout
  • Creating the Fragment class
  • Wrapping the list in a fragment
  • Providing the display fragment
  • Converting the activity to use fragments
  • Activities and backward compatibility
  • Summary
  • 2. Fragments and UI Flexibility
  • Creating UI flexibility
  • Dynamic fragment layout selection
  • Adding an alternate layout resource
  • Managing fragment layout by screen size
  • Resource screen size groups
  • Resource screen size qualifiers
  • Eliminating redundancy
  • Layout aliasing
  • Design fragments for flexibility
  • Avoiding tight coupling
  • Abstracting fragment relationships
  • Defining the callback interface
  • Making the fragment self-contained
  • Fragment notification
  • Encapsulating fragment operations
  • Loosely connecting the pieces
  • Fragments protect against the unexpected.
  • Evolving layout resource files
  • Creating the book description activity
  • Making the MainActivity class adaptive
  • Summary
  • 3. Fragment Lifecycle and Specialization
  • Understanding the fragment lifecycle
  • Understanding fragment setup and display
  • Avoiding method name confusion
  • Understanding fragment hide and teardown
  • Maximizing available resources
  • Managing a fragment state
  • Special purpose fragment classes
  • ListFragment
  • Associating data with the list
  • Separating data from display
  • Creating the ListFragment derived class
  • Handling ListFragment item selection
  • Updating the layout resources
  • DialogFragment
  • Styles
  • Layout
  • DialogFragment display
  • Event handling
  • Dialog identity
  • Accessing Dialog related behavior
  • Wrapping an existing dialog in a fragment
  • Summary
  • 4. Working with Fragment Transactions
  • Intentional screen management
  • Dynamically managing fragments
  • Deferred execution of transaction changes
  • Adding and removing fragments
  • Supporting the back button
  • Creating an adaptive application layout
  • Updating the layout to support dynamic fragments
  • Adapting to device differences
  • Dynamically loading a fragment at startup
  • Transitioning between fragments
  • Eliminating redundant handling
  • Creating the fragment on-the-fly
  • Managing asynchronous creation
  • Putting it all together
  • Summary
  • 5. Creating Rich Navigation with Fragments
  • A brave new world
  • Making navigation fun with swipe
  • Implementing swipe navigation
  • Managing the swipe fragments
  • Putting the swipe UI into place
  • Android Studio and swipe navigation
  • Improving navigation with the ActionBar
  • Navigating randomly with tabs
  • Managing tab selection
  • Connecting the fragments to the tabs
  • Providing direct access with drop-down list navigation
  • Managing fragment selection.
  • Providing the navigation choices
  • Android Studio and drop-down list navigation
  • Summary
  • Index.

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