Everyday Animations In Android

Animation is often seen as a nice-to-have or gratuitous in software projects. In truth, animations actually exist to improve an app's user experience. Animations help users understand state changes, guide them to notice meaningful information, gather focus to a required action, or express relationships between UI elements. This session examines traditional techniques using property and drawable an

Mar 28, 2019, 10:30 PM – Mar 29, 2019, 12:00 AM

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Animation is often seen as a nice-to-have or gratuitous in software projects. In truth, animations actually exist to improve an app's user experience. Animations help users understand state changes, guide them to notice meaningful information, gather focus to a required action, or express relationships between UI elements. This session examines traditional techniques using property and drawable animations, as well as the new MotionLayout introduced at Google I/O 2018. These techniques can expand content, display state, move elements, and highlight important controls. Properly executed animation effects are applicable to buttons, lists, and images in any Android app, taking an app's user experience from good to great.

A long time resident of metro Detroit, Dr. Truxall has been slinging code for a living since 1995, working with enterprise web technologies, modeling business processes, and building public web sites and mobile apps for some of the largest companies in North America. Always an enthusiast for troubleshooting systems, Trux has rescued numerous troubled applications and improved their performance. Co-author of the book Android Best Practices, he speaks at local conferences and user groups. Currently Trux is working in mobility at Perspecta, bringing digital services to the public sector.

Food will be provided by Arbormoon Software (http://www.arbormoon.com/) at 6:30, with the presentation starting at 7:00.

Organizers

  • Dave Koziol

    Little Caesars

    GDG Organizer

  • Jingran Wang

    Flutter/Android Developer

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