AppBarLayout and scrolling gestures (Android Development Patterns Ep 6)

Using AppBarLayout and Toolbar, your App Bar can be more than a fixed ActionBar: becoming part of your layout and reacting to scrolling.

We’ll go over the history of the App Bar and its past as the system provided ActionBar, what has changed with the introduction of Toolbars, part of AppCompat (https://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/features.html#v7-appcompat), and how with the help of the Android Design Support Library’s AppBarLayout you can implement many of the material design scrolling techniques (http://www.google.com/design/spec/patterns/scrolling-techniques.html) in your Android app.

Add the Android Design Library to your app today: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2015/05/android-design-support-library.html

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