Preface

Long gone are the days of the mobile apps with a static UI squished onto a tiny screen. Today's users expect mobile apps to be dynamic and highly interactive. They expect an app to look fantastic when they're looking at it on their medium-resolution smartphone, and that same app needs to look just as fantastic when they switch over to using it on their high-resolution tablet. Apps need to provide rich navigation features. Also, apps need to be adaptive and responsive.

Trying to meet these demands using Android's traditional activity-centric UI design model is difficult. As developers, we need more control than that afforded by activities. We need a new approach: fragments give us that new approach.

In this book, you'll learn how to use fragments ...

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