#android cardview

Hello World, Today we are going to see what is cardview in android and what it's advantages.

CardView is a widget provided by the android to build a new look and efficient UI. You can make your app look more professional see examples below. Cardview is an amazing concept which makes your user experience better than old android UI. Cardview was released with Android version 5.0 which is android lollipop.

According to Android's Official Site, what is cardview:

CardView API as an easy way for you to show information inside cards that have a consistent look across the platform. These cards have a default elevation above their containing view group, so the system draws shadows below them. Cards provide an easy way to contain a group of views while providing a consistent style for the container.

What are the advantages of CardView?

Before the cardview, if we want to make something look like a card we mostly use framelayout but the problem with framelayout was that we need to write a lot of code to make simple changes but this was solved when cardview released and it has some more advantages as follows.

Cardview has elevation property for controlling shadow

Set the border or corner radius of the card

Changing background color is easy

Ripple effect on cardview looks super cool

These are some of the advantages but not the least.

See also:

Load Image from URL in Android

How to add cardview in Android Project

To use cardview in your android project, first, we need to add cardview dependency in the gradle file.

Android RecyclerView and CardView Tutorial

Android RecyclerView is an advanced version of ListView. For displaying large data sets that has to be changed on scroll we can use Android RecyclerView. In this tutorial we will create a simple list using Android RecyclerView. In this tutorial we will use CardView and RecyclerView to create our List.

In this tutorial we will fetch json from server. So you can see myjson from this link

http://sim…