XYZ Reader

• About
• What did I learn
• Rubric check list
• Implementation

About

This project is part of the Udacity Android Developer Nanodegree under the name - Project P5: Make Your App Material.

Project Overview:

In this project, I redesigned an app to follow the Material Design guidelines and translate a set of static design mocks to a living and breathing app.

Why this Project?

This project gave me the opportunity to improve an app’s design, a vital skill for building apps users would love. It also would replicate a common developer task of updating and changing an app's design as new standards are released.

What did I learn?

Through this project, I did:

• Understood the fundamentals of Android design.
• Applied Material Design guidelines to an mobile application.
• Separated an interface into surfaces.
• Effectively used transitions and motion.

Rubric Check list

• App uses the Design Support library and its provided widget types (FloatingActionButton, AppBarLayout, SnackBar, etc).
• App uses CoordinatorLayout for the main Activity.
• App theme extends from AppCompat.
• App uses an AppBar and associated Toolbars.
• App provides a Floating Action Button for the most common action(s).
• App properly specifies elevations for app bars, FABs, and other elements specified in the Material Design specification.
• App has a consistent color theme defined in styles.xml. Color theme does not impact usability of the app.
• App provides sufficient space between text and surrounding elements.
• App uses images that are high quality, specific, and full bleed.
• App uses fonts that are either the Android defaults, are complementary, and aren't otherwise distracting.
• App conforms to common standards found in the Android Nanodegree General Project Guidelines.

Implementation

Gradle Configuration

• Module build.gradle

android {
    compileSdkVersion 25
    buildToolsVersion "25.0.2"

    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 21
        targetSdkVersion 25
    }
}

dependencies {

    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:25.3.1'
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v13:25.3.1'
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.3.1'
    compile 'com.android.support:palette-v7:25.3.1'
    compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:25.3.1'
    compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:25.3.1'
    compile 'com.android.support:design:25.3.1'
    compile 'com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:3.1.2'
    compile files('libs/volley.jar')
}