Android Dreams, Widgets and Notifications: Life Outside Your App

WMV | WMV3 200kbps | English | 1024x768 | 15fps | 3h 20mins | WMA2 stereo 128kbps | 400 MB

Genre: Video Training

This course teaches you how to provide users with a rich and interactive experience without ever requiring them to open your app through the effective use of Android Dreams, widgets, and notifications.

Sometimes the best app experiences occur completely outside of your app. Users must often switch back and forth between a variety of tasks, which they can do much more effectively if they can interact with each app’s information without having to explicitly open the app. This course teaches you how to provide this incredible out-of-app user experience using Android dreams, widgets, and notifications. Dreams allow your app to display information or provide entertainment while the device is docked or charging. Widgets allow your app to provide an interactive user experience directly on the Android home screen. With notifications your app can provide information to the user through the status bar even when the user is using a different app; notifications can also gather information from the user and, when necessary, allow the user to jump directly to the appropriate screen within your app right from the status bar.

Table of contents:

Providing an Out-of-App Experience16m 51s

Creating Engaging Notfications49m 5s

Making Notfications Interactive46m 43s

Creating Home Screen Widgets36m 35s

Updating and Configuring Widgets51m 37s