A look at the Palette class

Back in February, Chris Banes’ two excellent blog posts (color matching part one and part two) showed us how can we extract the dominant colors from a bitmap. This can be a powerful asset to the user experience of your app: think about a dynamically colored ActionBar (and also the status bar in L), or a filter based on the dominant color of your bitmap. For example, the current version of iTunes paints the background with the most frequent color of the albumarts, resulting in a really cool user experience. The Palette class from the new Support Library announced at Google I/O does the same.