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Jason Morris has been developing software for as long as he can remember. He's written software for the desktop, the server, for feature phones and for smart phones. He's written in many languages, and deployed in a variety of countries. Jason loves a good programming challenge, and when he's not writing code, or spending time with his family, taking photo's or camping: he's probably thinking about programming. In 2010 / 2011 he wrote Android User Interface Development: A Beginners Guide, which helped many beginner Android developers take their first steps into the realm of User Interface design and development for mobile devices.
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Coordinating the Overview Screen


The Overview screen you built in Chapter 7, Creating Overview Screens, is a perfect candidate for a CoordinatorLayout. To start with, the allowance overview bar can be made to collapse, and unfold as the user scrolls. This allows more space for the claim items on the screen as they are scrolling, and by expanding the overview again when they scroll upward, the user doesn't have to scroll all the way to the top to get the overview back.

This behavior won't just use the CoordinatorLayout, but will also need the help of the AppBarLayout and CollapsingToolbarLayout classes as you'll need to take control of the Material Design scaffolding to make it work. Follow these steps to move the allowance overview into the header bar and make it collapse:

  1. First, open the AndroidManifest file from the manifests folder in the project tree (use the Android perspective).
  2. Find the OverviewActivity entry and add a theme attribute that will tell the system not to provide a system...
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Jason Morris has been developing software for as long as he can remember. He's written software for the desktop, the server, for feature phones and for smart phones. He's written in many languages, and deployed in a variety of countries. Jason loves a good programming challenge, and when he's not writing code, or spending time with his family, taking photo's or camping: he's probably thinking about programming. In 2010 / 2011 he wrote Android User Interface Development: A Beginners Guide, which helped many beginner Android developers take their first steps into the realm of User Interface design and development for mobile devices.
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