Is it possible to change the height of the navigation bar only in my application.
No, unfortunately you don't have control over system navigation bar height. There's a reason for that: some devices don't have it, while some devices give user control of how it looks (3 buttons vs gesture navigation). What you can do is hide/show it, or display your content behind it. Please refer to the documentation for more details
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Is there any possible way to center align the action item icons that are shown in action bar of titanium app for android. I have searched a lot of places for this solution but had no luck. I want the action bar to look like the below image. Also tell me the way to not show app title in the action bar.
This is not a Titanium issue.
As you can read in Google's documentation, you won't be able to center anything in the ActionBar. Default (and expected) behaviour is to align action icons on the right (or left if reversed).
I don't recommend it, as it goes against Google's guidelines, but you will be able to center icons if you create a fake ActionBar:
- Remove native ActionBar from any window in your app
- Create a Titanium View that mimics the ActionBar
- Add icons and bind click events.
That's it, you are done.
I am looking to implement a menu like used on the Android Uber app.
It seems to be like an action bar on top with 3 small settings stripes on left side. (probably not a real action bar)
When clicking in that area a black menu slides out from the left and occupies 70% of the screen.
The right side of the screen still showing the map is darkened to keep focus on the menu.
I like that style, it looks good and everyone immediately knows how to use it.
I would like to have the same but don't know where to start or if there is maybe something available that would do something similar.
The actionbar itself only offers the menu on top right which is better for pure settings.
I also experimented with a split action bar having the menu items on bottom but that also seems superior to the clean interface Uber provides.
You want the Android Navigation Drawer. It's an Android sanctioned navigation pattern and more details about it can be found here. For some more technical documentation and an example of how to use it, you can find a sample over here. It works great with the Action Bar so shouldn't need anything too custom outside of what the Android v4 compat library gives you.
Is it possible to hide navigation bar on e.g. tablets in activity, so it does not appear when user is clicking on the screen?
I want it to appear only when user is swiping from bottom to middle of the screen, just like in e.g. Real Racing 3.
When I use:
myView.setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION);
Unfortunetly navigation bar is hidden, but when user is clicking, it appears again. I want it to work only with this swipe gesture. How it can be achieved?
This is a platform behavior. Apps do not have the sort of control of the navigation bar that you are looking for, and for good reason. All it takes is one app not implementing a way to show the nav bar and the user is stuck. You will have to design your app with the platform's behavior in mind.
On iOS 7, there is a tab bar/navigation bar like below image
Is there a control similar to the style of it on Android? I did see some apps implemented this styled navigation bar.
I agree you should not implement IOS features in Android.
Also I don't know where you got the picture for the IOS app, but an IOS app has a tab bar controller which shows its tabs at the bottom of the sreen. It also has a navigation controller which does in no way look like your screenshot.
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/WindowsViews/Conceptual/ViewControllerCatalog/Chapters/TabBarControllers.html
That being said you can use tabs in the actionbar. http://developer.android.com/design/building-blocks/tabs.html
The control I described is actually called SegmentedControl which does have Android implementation. Below are a few of them:
https://github.com/hoang8f/android-segmented-control
https://github.com/peshkira/android_segmented_control
https://github.com/nairteashop/SegmentedControl
Hope someone find it helpful
I want to display the Action Bar Vertically in my App.
I have found few examples for the Horizontal One, but not any for the Vertical One.
Can anyone please give me any example for the Vertical Action Bar.
Thanks,
David Brown
There's nothing in the Android UI design guide about a vertical ActionBar. But you might be able to coerce a similar effect by locking the display orientation, and then applying a rotation to the View in the content area. You also might be able to get somewhere by downloading the source code for ActionBarSherlock and implementing your own version of the ActionBar. But I don't recommend either of these solutions. If you're really that intent on putting actions on the side of your screen, I suggest either a small vertical LinearLayout, or implement one of the side navigation solutions as discussed in Android Facebook style slide.