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Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 5th Edition
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Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 5th Edition

by Bryan Sills, Brian Gardner, Kristin Marsicano, Chris Stewart
May 2022
Intermediate to advanced
688 pages
20h 12m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Challenge: Polishing Your App Some More

With your search feature now working, you might notice little defects or shortcomings of your implementation. Modern, high-quality apps do many subtle things to improve the user experience when searching for content. See if you can implement a few of these changes:

  • As soon as a query is submitted, hide the soft keyboard.

  • While the network request is executing, display a loading indicator (indeterminate progress bar).

  • Your current search implementation has a slight problem: If you start typing a new query while a search is ongoing, it will be reset when the search finishes. Let the user start typing in a new query (or disable text input on the SearchView entirely) while a query is executing. ...

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ISBN: 9780137645794