From the course: Android App Development: Working with Widgets
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Design guidelines: Details - Android Tutorial
From the course: Android App Development: Working with Widgets
Design guidelines: Details
- [Instructor] Now that you have a good understanding of the design guidelines, let's look at some templates in more details into the widget specs that Android provides. So go to this link and once you get to this page, if you scroll down to Widget Anatomy right here you're going to see a bit more details around the anatomy of a widget. Basically, when you look into this graphic you have three elements, a binding box, the widget margin, and the padding. When you build your widget, you want to make sure you have enough space in between each section to leave breathing room for your elements of your widget. Next, you need to determine the minimum height and widget are your widget. And as you scroll down to the table, you'll see an approximate number of DPs your widget must be based on the number of cells high or wide you want your widget to be. To give you an idea of what that means, look further down into the music player example. So if we calculate the minimum width and the minimum…
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