Creating Dynamic UI with Android Fragments

Make your Android apps a superior, silky-smooth experience for the end-user with this comprehensive guide to creating a dynamic and multi-pane UI. Everything you need to know in one handy volume.

Key Features

• Learn everything you need to know to provide dynamic multi-screen UIs within a single activity
• Integrate the rich UI features demanded by today's mobile users
• Understand the basics of using fragments and how to use them to create more adaptive and dynamic user experiences

Book Description

What you will learn

• Understand the role and capabilities of fragments
• Explore the fragment-oriented features of Android Studio
• Create an app UI that works effectively on smartphones and tablets
• Use fragments to create engaging navigation capabilities like swipe-based screen browsing
• Work with special purpose fragment classes like ListFragment and DialogFragment
• Dynamically manage fragments using the FragmentTransaction class
• Learn appropriate application design for communicating between fragments
• Efficiently handle fragment creation and lifecycle
• Simplify cross-thread UI handling with fragments
• Form multi-screen UIs that run within a single activity

Who this book is for

This book is for developers with a basic understanding of Android programming who would like to improve the appearance and usability of their applications. Whether you're looking to create a more interactive user experience, create more dynamically adaptive UIs, provide better support for tablets and smartphones in a single app, reduce the complexity of managing your app UIs, or you are just trying to expand your UI design philosophy, then this book is for you.