Facebook Shimmer Effect Android Example
Shimmer effect was created by Facebook to show loading status instead of showing ProgressBar. In this article, I’m going to take you through my journey of replacing the ProgressBar with Shimmer effect. App Intro To replicate the Facebook Shimmer animation, I built a simple app where we’re gonna execute movies fetching network request. We’re gonna hit an URL and download Json data and show in a GridView. While application fetching movies instead of showing ProgressBar, we’re gonna show the Shimmering effect and in successful or in error case stop the effect. Gradle Stuff Facebook Shimmer effect requires us to add some more stuff to our application modules build.gradle file. We start by adding the following dependencies right after the android section: Recommended for you // Facebook shimmer effect dependency implementation 'com.facebook.shimmer:shimmer:0.1.0@aar' // Retrofit dependency implementation 'com.sq...