The Guide to Color Gradients in Android Studio

Code on the Rocks
5 min readMay 22, 2020

Adjusting the background color of your activities and fragments is one of the easiest ways to add flair to your mobile apps. A strong color palette can make a bad app okay and a good app great if applied with artistic tenderness. In this article, I’m going to explore one component of the tender artist’s toolkit: the gradient. I’ll also go one step further and illustrate how a gradient can be animated on screen automatically or with respect to some other value.

Gradient Drawables

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