Most of us have played with custom views on Android. Maybe to implement the lovely UI our designer team came up with - that we do not know how to implement it using the standard Android UI widget set - or just to build the fancy menu our application needs.

Android provides us a standard set of great components to build our UI, but sometimes we need additional horsepower. Custom views give us this additional power, but as you might have heard before, with great power comes great responsibility. At the end of the day, we will be fully responsible for the performance, efficiency & battery use of our custom view; there will be nobody else to blame. But, what about taking advantage of this additional power to build something different for our application? Something different that will definitely make it stand out from all the others?

In this session, we will see a slightly different use of custom views. We will cover the basic stuff & later on the session we will focus on building special animations and renderings going beyond, what can be called, standard implementations. Be aware though, that does not mean we always have to go further from the standards or to the same extreme as this session, as that might feel overwhelming and produce the opposite effect.