Grokking Android

Getting Down to the Nitty Gritty of Android Development

Selecting Items of a RecyclerView using StateListDrawables

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Last week, after I published my introduction to RecyclerView Paul Betts asked on Twitter whether ItemDecorators are useful for displaying the selection state of items. Well, I think using them for selection is not the right way to go. Instead, I think that you should stick with StateListDrawables and the activated state. The use case […]  Continue Reading  “Selecting Items of a RecyclerView using StateListDrawables”

A First Glance at Android’s RecyclerView

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At this year’s Google I/O, Google released a preview to the upcoming Android version. The so called L Developer Preview. This is a very big improvement over previous releases and I really love that Google is doing this. I think we all benefit by this decision. As developers and as consumers alike! Part of this […]  Continue Reading  “A First Glance at Android’s RecyclerView”