Developing Android Applications with Kotlin: Custom Views Playbook

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Brendan Wanlass

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1. Course Overview

1. Course Overview.mp4

00:57

2. Getting Started

1. Getting Started.mp4

04:02

3. Creating Compound Components

1. Creating Compound Components.mp4

01:09

2. Intro to Compound Components.mp4

01:48

3. Combining Views into a Compound Component.mp4

09:42

4. Communicating between View and Activity.mp4

09:00

5. A Kotlin Approach to Communication.mp4

06:24

6. Custom Attributes.mp4

05:34

7. Summary.mp4

01:11

04. Extending Views

01. Extending Views.mp4

00:44

02. Intro to Extending Views.mp4

02:40

03. Customizing Existing Views.mp4

06:26

04. Intro to the Canvas.mp4

06:51

05. Coping with Clipping.mp4

02:45

06. Using Custom Attributes.mp4

01:20

08. Extended View Communication.mp4

01:46

09. Considerations When Extending Views.mp4

02:48

10. Supporting Different Screen Sizes.mp4

04:21

11. Compound Component vs. Extended View.mp4

01:00

12. Summary.mp4

00:56

5. Creating Custom Views

1. Creating Custom Views.mp4

03:03

2. Creating a View from Scratch.mp4

08:12

3. Drawing with Math.mp4

03:36

4. Padding and Positioning.mp4

02:05

5. Painting Circles.mp4

04:27

6. Summary.mp4

00:52

6. Custom View Positioning and Sizing

1. Custom View Positioning and Sizing.mp4

00:55

2. Understanding onMeasure().mp4

04:10

3. Measuring Your View.mp4

02:08

4. Custom Sizing with Attributes.mp4

02:31

5. Making Your View Size Flexible.mp4

05:45

6. Summary.mp4

00:54

7. Making Your Custom View Interactive

1. Making Your Custom View Interactive.mp4

00:50

2. Handling Motion Events.mp4

04:26

3. Making the Color Dial Interactive.mp4

02:07

4. User Input Coordinates.mp4

07:09

5. Tying It All Together.mp4

01:48

6. Summary.mp4

02:42

Description

Adding customized views and components to your app will set it apart from the crowd. In this course, you will learn three foundational techniques for creating any view you can imagine.

What You'll Learn?

As you develop Android apps, you will discover that the default Android views and widgets almost always fall short. While these components are a great start, you will need to add customized components to maximize your app’s potential. In this course, Android Apps with Kotlin: Custom Views, you will gain the ability to to build any view you can imagine. First, you will learn how to combine basic Android views into compound components. Next, you will discover the benefits of extending existing views to add your own unique style. Finally, you will explore how to build a custom view from the ground up by extending the View class. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of creating custom views needed to build world-class Android apps.

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Android Development

Kotlin

Brendan Wanlass

Instructor's Courses

Brendan is an Android and game developer. He has a passion for well designed, engaging software. He was a designer and engineer for the game Magnetic by Nature (https://store.steampowered.com/app/296510/Magnetic_By_Nature/). He is experienced with Android in the Enterprise and spoke and Google's AFW event in London in 2017. His interests include game theory and design, enterprise Android development and entrepreneurship. When Brendan isn't working on a coding project, he's probably gaming with friends or hanging out with his wife and kids.

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