Providing a high-quality user experience is critical to the success of any application. Android provides a wide-variety of features and capabilities that empower developers to provide such an experience and this course, Enhancing the Android Application Experience, will serve as your guide to including these features in your applications. First, you’ll learn how to include rich, card-based lists using RecyclerView and CardView. After that, you’ll explore how to improve user interaction with options menus and app bar actions. Next, you’ll cover how to expand your application navigation experience with NavigationDrawer. To assure application reliability, you’ll learn how to create automated UI tests that cover RecyclerView, options menus, and NavigationDrawer. Additionally, you’ll dive into how to enrich the app appearance and branding through resources, styles, and themes. Finally, you’ll discover how to provide user customizable behavior with SharedPreferences and settings screens. By the end of this course, you’ll have the necessary skills and knowledge to create Android apps of your own that provide a high-quality engaging user experience.
Author Name: Jim Wilson
Author Description:
Jim Wilson is president of JW Hedgehog, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in solutions for the Android, iOS, and Microsoft platforms. Jim has over 30 years of software engineering experience, with the past 15 years heavily focused on creating mobile device and location-based solutions. He has co-founded multiple software-related startups and has served in a consulting role at several more. After nearly a decade as a Microsoft Device Application Development MVP, Jim now focuses on developing A… more

Table of Contents

• Designing and Planning Your App
  8mins
• Working with RecyclerView and CardView
  26mins
• Binding Data to RecyclerView
  35mins
• Using Options Menus
  30mins
• Working with Navigation Drawer
  52mins
• Testing Menu, Navigation Drawer, and RecyclerView Behavior
  18mins
• Using Drawable and Values Resources
  34mins
• Customizing App Appearance with Styles and Themes
  45mins
• Creating Settings Screens and Accessing SharedPreferences
  39mins