Welcome to the second part of this series on Custom Views on Android. This comes after the previous article which explains the fundamentals of working with Custom Views (and its implementations), so you might want to go through it before this article if you haven’t already. In this article, we…

When building android apps, we use views provided to us by the Android UI Framework, whether it’s a TextView showing text stored in a local database or an ImageView displaying an image loaded over a network. These views cater to our basic needs and amazing android apps leverage these pre-existing…

Begin formatting text like a pro! — Text, probably the most basic element you get to work with on Android, and sometimes we have to format certain parts of our text. Formatting helps place emphasis on text, indicating that the formatted parts of text mean more when compared to plain parts. Formatting options include underline, bold, italics…

Creating awesome custom views on Android by leveraging the power of Compound Components. — Series Roadmap Part 1 (you’re here) Part 2 Part 3 Android provides us with a huge set of views that already cater to our basic needs. Whether it’s a TextView to display the status of a launched transaction, or an ImageView to showcase a retrieved image from a URL, all of these…

Creating awesome custom views on Android by leveraging the power of Compound Components. — Series Roadmap Part 1 Part 2 (you’re here) Part 3 Hello there, and welcome back. This is the second part in a three-part series tutorial on using Compound Components in Android. If this is your first time here, you might want to check out the first part here. In the previous part…

Creating awesome custom views on Android by leveraging the power of Compound Components. — Hello there, and welcome. Series Roadmap Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 (you’re here) This is the third part in a three-part series tutorial on using Compound Components in Android. Confused? you might want to check out the previous articles for more clarity. FileDescriptor We have successfully completed the core functionality our Compound…