

We have discussed SnackBar at length in another tutorial. A SnackBar is invoked as follows: Snackbar.make(view, "Replace with your own action", Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG) SnackBar is a more enhanced widget when compared to a Toast. A CoordinatorLayout helps facilitate interactions between views contained within it, which will be useful later to describe how to animate the button depending on scroll changes. In the above xml layout elevation attribute is used to cast a shadow over the button and pressedTranslationZ causes the shadow to grow when pressed.Ī FloatingActionButton is placed within a CoordinatorLayout.This is evident from the android:src attribute defined. FloatingActionButton extends the ImageView class.The FloatingActionButton widget is defined in the xml layout as follows: įew observations made from the above xml layout defined are: To use Material Design widgets in our project we need to compile the following dependency in our adle file as shown below.

It’s a cool and stylish way to get user’s attention to it. Android Floating Action ButtonĪndroid Floating Action Button is used to pay emphasis to the most important function on the screen. We’ll discuss the FloatingActionButton, that’s a new component included in the Material Design Guidelines and SnackBar, which is a Material Design replacement of a Toast. Today we will learn about Android Floating Action Button.
