Improving User Interaction with the Android ActionBar
In this course we look at how to provide a rich user experience by taking full advantage of the ActionBar in your apps.
What you'll learn
The ActionBar incorporates a variety of previously disparate user interaction concepts into a single control. The ActionBar provides one-stop shopping for menu management, home and back behavior, tabbed displays, screen layout adaptability, and many more user interaction concepts. In this course we look at how to provide a rich user experience by taking full advantage of the ActionBar in your apps.
Table of contents
- Introduction 3m
- Tabbed Navigation 4m
- Demo: Tabbed Navigation 15m
- Demo: Tabbed Navigation Factory Helper 7m
- Partial Screen Tabbing 3m
- Demo: Partial Screen Tabbing 7m
- Controling Tab Placement 1m
- Demo: Controling Tab Placement 5m
- Scrolling Tabs 1m
- List Navigation 3m
- Demo: List Navigation 10m
- Demo: Partial Screen List Navigation 4m
- Summary 2m
About the author
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
