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Hands-On Android UI Development

You're reading from  Hands-On Android UI Development

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788475051
Pages 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Jason Morris Jason Morris
Profile icon Jason Morris

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Creating Android Layouts Designing Form Screens Taking Actions Composing User Interfaces Binding Data to Widgets Storing and Retrieving Data Creating Overview Screens Designing Material Layouts Navigating Effectively Making Overviews Even Better Polishing Your Design Customizing Widgets and Layouts Activity Lifecycle
Test Your Knowledge Answers

Swiping to delete


While you have a way for your users to create claim items, the users have no way to delete the claim items that they have created. A common pattern in lists on mobile apps is to allow the user to swipe right to dismiss or delete items. RecyclerView provides some excellent and easy-to-use structures to enable this sort of behavior; however, it's always important to ensure that users don't delete items by mistake.

In the past, most user interfaces used confirmation dialogs when executing destructive actions. However, these "are you sure" dialogs are a horrible distraction for most users, because such messages violate a key principle--the application assumes that the user probably doesn't want to perform an action that they just took. In reality, the user probably did mean to delete the item, but the application interrupts them to ask whether they're sure about their choice. A much better behavior is to assume that the user does want to take the action, but then to give them...

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