I have been doing a small research on UI designs for Android for the last few weeks. My main concern right now is the action bar along with tabs. I believe the default android implementation takes to much room on the screen.
Recently I took a look at the Flickr app and I really like how they do this but I am not sure how to implement tabs this smoothly inside the action bar itself.
All help / ideas are appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Screenshot of the action bar can be found here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/242865/Screenshot_2014-11-11-11-04-05.png
Check out this library on github.
It's an Android Library to help you create actionbar tabs like Capitaine train app by Cyril Mottier.
You have to set a customview in your actionbar and use something like ViewPagerIndicator
http://viewpagerindicator.com/
To setup a custom view in your actionbar just use setCustomView but remember to enable the display of custom view first.
Take a look at this
http://www.jfarrell.net/2013/10/customizing-action-bar-in-android.html
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I want to create the following customized BottomNavigationBar. How can I set custom layout for the same?
Can somebody tell me how to approach it ?
You can check this library, hope this helps! BottomNavigationCircles-Android
If you are OK with using Material components, this article should be of use: https://protocoderspoint.com/custom-bottom-navigation-bar-android/.
This is a relatively easy thing to find on Google, so I advise looking there for some help.
Check out sites like https://github.com/roughike/BottomBar if you want to build upon a pre-built layout/system.
As far as I can tell though, there is no method to set android:layout="#layout/mylayout" function for bottom nav bars.
Search GitHub for "custom bottom navigation bar" and try to build off of the dirty work that has been done there. It will save a lot of time and headache while you're trying to build the back-end navigation patterns and layout inflators.
I want to implement a layout in which the action bar is below an image. And, on sliding the screen up, the actionbar should also move up, along with the image. The action bar should then go to the topmost point of the screen and stop.
This is implemented in many apps like the grofers app.
I don't mind using an external library for the same.
Thanks.
Go Through this awesome Demo Sample Code using Android Design Support Library Coordinator Layout.
Please go through this,It shows some of the important features in the new Design library:
https://github.com/chrisbanes/cheesesquare
As per your requirement Here is sample code link.
Please check this
I have found a library same for your requirement. please find the link
You have to customize from that library according to your need.
I want to make a UI like this http://d.pr/i/ZQxO but I don't think so that android ActionBar component has the provision to add menu layout like this. What can be the possible workaround for this? Thanks.
You can do it with simple option menus. Have look on official samples or even better do it breadcrumb
Is there any way to change the content of the title bar when it's in Tab(If it wasn't in tab I would have done it but tried couldn't find any solution). E.g. Suppose I have created a custom title bar with few buttons on it, and now I want to change the content of the title bar(Drawables, Title and the functionality).
It would be great if someone could tell me if i can implement Action bar in versions below 3.0 ? I am creating this project in 2.1 (I'd like to create action bar from scratch).
or if there's any way beside inserting an image and placing buttons on it(This methodology would be good enough)?
If you're just looking to implement the ActionBar paradigm in pre-Honeycomb versions of Android, I suggest you look into using the ActionBarSherlock library.
The library will automatically use the native action bar when
available or will automatically wrap a custom implementation around
your layouts. This allows you to easily develop an application with an
action bar for every version of Android back through 1.6.
twaddington and pjco's answers are correct, you need to use ActionBarSherlock if you want to be compatible with every SDK levels.
I want to add you can have a custom actionbar or a custom view for your actionbar tabs using the method actionbar.setCustomView(view) or tab.setCustomView(view)
Anyway, play with ActionBarSherlock demos, there are a few cool use cases.
The other option worth looking at is ActionBarCompat, which I think comes with the SDK 14 api demos. However, ActionBarSherlock seems to support many more features so that may be the better solution.
I am creating an app where i would like to use both the drop down list navigation and tab navigation on an actionbar. But i can not figure out how to do this without implementing the actionbar as a custom view which would mess up a lot of the nice built in features.
So what is the best way to get both of these navigation modes at the same time?
Android will not build both of these for you. You can use the ViewPagerIndicator library to make an emulated tab bar for a ViewPager, which is probably the easiest way to do this.