CardView Extension for MIT App Inventor: Elevate Your App's Design
Give your App Inventor projects a modern, sleek look with the CardView extension! This powerful extension allows you to effortlessly transform any layout into a native Android CardView, enhancing its visual appeal and user experience.
No more boring rectangles! With CardView, you can:
Instantly enhance layouts: Wrap any arrangement or component in a visually appealing card with just a single block call.
Customize extensively: Fine-tune every aspect of your card's appearance, including:
Shape and Corners: Control corner radius for rounded edges.
Elevation and Shadows: Add depth and dimension with customizable shadows.
Colors and Borders: Set background and stroke colors, along with border width.
Padding and Margins: Precisely control spacing within and around the card.
Add interactive elements:
Enable click and long-click events with customizable foreground ripple effects for a modern touch response.
Easily detect user interactions through dedicated event blocks.
Maintain flexibility:
Seamlessly revert to the original layout using the ClearCardView function.
Preserve your existing layout structure and component hierarchy.
Benefits of using the CardView Extension:
Modern UI/UX: Instantly modernize your app's interface, aligning it with current design trends.
Improved Visual Hierarchy: Cards naturally group content, making your app easier to scan and navigate.
Enhanced User Engagement: Interactive cards with touch feedback create a more engaging and delightful user experience.
Easy Integration: Simple blocks and properties make it incredibly easy to use, even for beginners.
No, the layout arrangement is not always visible before setting the CardView. The visibility of the layout arrangement depends on several factors, including:
Visibility Property: The Visible property of the layout arrangement itself. If it's set to false, the layout and its contents will not be visible, regardless of the CardView.
Parent Layout Visibility: If the layout arrangement is nested within another layout that has its Visible property set to false, the inner layout will also be hidden.
CardView Elevation: If the CardView has a significant elevation (shadow), it might visually overlap the layout arrangement, making it appear as if the layout is behind the CardView.
Background Colors: If the CardView and the layout arrangement have the same background color, the layout might blend in with the CardView and not be clearly visible.
The CardView extension uses the CardView native library in Android which does not provide a direct API for configuring light direction, as shadow direction is system-defined and based on the elevation property.
Unfortunately CardView is a convenient, fast and limited creation of the Android developers and I don't see the point in using this view. Using any view and a few view properties you can create your own card view with much more customization, including the ability to modify the direction of the shadow.
No.
I didn't use a list view.
I tried with just an empty app, loading this extension and it won't generate APK.
I doesn't matter if you actually inizialise it in an frame or other objet