Announcing New Pro Course: Visual Feedback: Dialogs, Snackbars & Toasts!

Announcing new Pro Course: Visual Feedback: Dialogs, Snackbars & Toasts

Raise your hand if you've been here: you tap a button in an app to download a file, make a payment, or post your latest cat picture...and you have absolutely no idea if your button tap actually did anything?!

Spoiler alert: no one likes that, especially your users! Create smart and responsive user feedback in your Android apps with our new Visual Feedback: Dialogs, Snackbars & Toasts course!

Keep reading to hear more about it from course instructor Aldo Olivares:

Why should I take your Visual Feedback course?

"Adding appropiate visual feedback is an important part of Android Development that is often overlooked by new developers. It tells your users that the app is working as expected or doing something in the background.

In this course, you'll learn about some of the most important components of visual feedback: snackbars, toasts and dialogs."

How do you use visual in your projects?

"Visual feedback is used all the time in Android development. I use progress bar indicators when the app is retrieving information from a web service and snackbars to display confirmation messages that need a response from the user. Dialogs are often used when you need to display information that needs complete attention from the user."

Can you please share a cool Android snackbar tip with us?

"Creating a snackbar with a button that triggers an action when pressed is very easy to implement. In fact, you only need 5 lines of code:

The first line creates a snackbar with the appropiate text and duration. setAction() attaches a button to your snackbar that triggers the block of code inside the lambda expression once it is pressed."

Finally, you just call show() to display the snackbar on the layout passed as a parameter."

Is there anything else we should know about your Android Visual Feedback course?

"Visual feedback is only a small portion of great user experience design.

If you want to learn more about this subject, I suggest reading the official material design documentation that can be found at https://material.io, where you'll find design advice, as well as tips and tricks on how to create great user experiences for Android, iOS and the web."

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Aldo's Visual Feedback: Dialogs, Snackbars & Toasts course is available for Pro subscribers now!

— Ray