How to get your Menu Options on Steroids

Pradyuman Dixit
AndroidPub
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3 min readFeb 19, 2019

🔥 Get your simple menu options on steroids 💪

UX/UI, the only two terms that can make a difference for any app in the current scenario.

With more than 2 Million apps on play store, and tons of new apps being published every day, you can not just guarantee the success of your app. Gone are the days when simple ideas could make it big.

Android library

Today with so many options, users tend to visit the app with better UI and they constantly look for improvements. So what to do?

Wait, you don’t understand what’s UI or UX?

Apologies, I should’ve told you eariler.

UX stands for user experience and UI stands for user interface. But what does that mean?

UI is the buttons, screen and anything you can look and touch in an app, those components of the app which let you contact with the core working of the app fall in the category of User Interface components.

UX is for User Experience, which basically means interaction of user with UI.

Improving UI so that the work-flow and looks of the app gets better for the user, is one of the most important aspects for any android developer or company now.

There are tons of cool android libraries that can help you improve UX/UI of your app on GitHub. There is one more website, where you can look for cool and amazing android libraries, Android Arsenal.

This site does exactly what we are looking for, delivers cool android libraries from android developers around the world in front of us to choose and use.

Also, menu is one of the most important things that users look at. This definitely improves UX a lot because user frequently visits menus to get to other stages of the app.

That’s why I’ve worked on an android library called Pager.

Pager logo

This is a very cool android library that can help you make animated pages menu. You can have menu with pages and can easily go from one part of menu to another with cool animations.

The clean and simple working of the library makes it very lightweight and easy to add in your code.

You can look at the full source code of the library here.

My whole working was based on KISS (keep it stupid simple) and adding more options with less amount of code. That’s why there is no clutter code when using this simple library.

And the result?

Pager GIF

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