Short presentation of the current status of the action bar and pull to refresh projects for Android. Android Library Projects http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/eclipse-adt.html#libraryProject Action Bar for Android https://github.com/johannilsson/android-actionbar Pull to Refresh for Android https://github.com/johannilsson/android-pulltorefresh Presented at GTUG Stockholm 2011-01-20.

1. new(Android UI Patterns) @johanni http://markupartist.com

2. Twitter for Android

3. "As many of you know, we’ll soon be open sourcing this application code under the Android Open Source Project. " http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/05/twitter-for-android-closer-look-at.html

4. Did they?

5. NO

6. So I built my own, last summer I wrote implementations of the action bar and the quick action pattern. And have recently open sourced the action bar

7. Building Custom Components

8. JAR files can't hold Android resources and we really don't want to copy-paste resources.

9. Android Library Projects Holds shared code and resources

10. At build time the library projects are merged with the application

13. Reusable widgets White-label apps Paid and free versions of the same app

14. developer.android.com/guide/developing/eclipse-adt.html#libraryProject

15. Action Bar

17. <com.markupartist.android.widget.ActionBar android:id=&quot;@+id/actionbar&quot; app:title=&quot;@string/some_title&quot; style=&quot;@style/ActionBar&quot; />

18. ActionBar ab = (ActionBar) findViewById(R.id.actionbar); // Assign the home action ab.setHomeAction(new IntentAction( this,homeIntent, R.drawable.home)); // Add some actions ab.addAction(new IntentAction( this, shareIntent, R.drawable.share)); ab.addAction(new IntentAction( this, otherIntent, R.drawable.other));

20. Current Status Used in Voddler for Android and in the upcoming version of iglaset.

21. github.com/johannilsson/android-actionbar

22. Pull to Refresh

23. http://screenr.com/RRk

25. Current Status API Level 8 (2.2) and far from complete

26. github.com/johannilsson/android-pulltorefresh