For the past few years, we’ve been getting to grips with Jetpack Compose and how we can use it to build apps for Handheld and Wear OS devices. Late last year, Composables built for Android TV apps started to surface as Alpha releases and in this series of blog posts, I want to dive into… Continue reading
There was a lot of exciting news announced at Google I/O this week – one of the things I had been looking forward to was hearing about large screen experiences. While these devices and design principles have existed side-by-side for some time, it’s always felt like support for developers has never quite fully been accessible…. Continue reading
In an app I’m working on I needed to allow the user to input some data before sending it off to a server. This is quite a common task for applications to implement, so in this post lets take a look at how we can do this in our Flutter apps. When it comes to… Continue reading
Bottom sheets are views which we can display at the bottom of the screen to display content to the user — this may be to prompt further interaction or display some form of other content to the user. These are always anchored at the bottom of the screen and be easily hidden from view by the user…. Continue reading
Version 28 of the Android support library was recently announced — within the current alpha version there is a collection of exciting new components that we now have access to. In this article, I want to take a look at the additions which have been made to the Support library in the form of Material view components…. Continue reading
It’s been a while since I wrote about the Android Design Support Library and I was super excited to wake up this morning to discover that the Bottom Navigation View has been added to version 25 of the Design Support Library! The Bottom Navigation View has been in the material design guidelines for some time,… Continue reading