I would like to create drawables like the following so that I can adjust the colour at run time.
I can easily create the drawable with a stroke around a colour but all it does is create the line on the edge of the circle, but I need to have the white line on the inside with the same colour as the center on the outside?
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
I think this is what you are looking for.
You basically override the onDraw method of your view and call drawCircle(x, y, radius, paint) with the parameters on the link.
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My app teaches how to write letters and I want to draw for example letter "A" programmatically.
I do not want to draw it pixel by pixel(it is so hard!)
What other ways to do that?
UPDATE:
I want to show how to write "A" not just showing A in the screen
Romain Guy recently wrote a blog post on how to do path tracing using paths. If you can construct paths yourself (or finding a method for creating correct paths for letters) you could use the information from his blog to do something.
http://www.curious-creature.org/2013/12/21/android-recipe-4-path-tracing/#more-1904
Good luck
if you are using Canvas, you can draw text on canvas using this:
canvas.drawText("A",marginFromLeft,MarginFromRight, paint);
also you can draw bitmap of A on canvas using this:
canvas.drawBitmap(bmp,marginLeft,marginTop, paint);
after drawing this,you can animate an other image like circle using animationSet:
anim One: animate circle moving from bottom left to top center of A
anim Two: animate circle moving from top center of A to bottom left Right
anim Three: animate circle moving from left-verticaly-center to right-verticaly-center.
I am trying to draw smooth line following my finger. The problem is in superposition. Left example is array of drawLine, and right is drawPath. Is it way to make it like smooth left example?
Construct the line as a solid color, then wrap that line inside of a drawable. Turn this drawable transparent, and then draw it to the screen.
I want to create a customview which will draw a specific shape .
So I try to override the onDraw function of View class and draw a shape by canvas class . But I couldnt found the solution to draw what I want .
Here is the shape that I want to draw (the color part and the rest is transparent not white)
Target shape
Please help me !! Thanks all in advance
You can create a white rounded corner in a layout which background is red (example code here : http://androidcookbook.com/Recipe.seam?recipeId=2318)
I have this image that comes back from an API, which represents the users avatar:
However, my graphics department has designed the app to mask the image to make it look like this at runtime (to match our existing design of sharp edges, etc):
Notice the small edge cutout on the bottom left?
I'd love to be able to create a custom ImageView that handled this for me. Unfortunately I'm not sure how to go about doing that. How can I create the bottom image in a custom ImageView. Is this possible? Do I mask it? If so, how?
Thanks!
Using Path and xfer modes to draw on canvas can do the trick. Check this answer how to draw pic to Closed curve area
I think the easiest way to do is to use 2 ImageViews, one with the photo and other above it with a mask for the photo, in your case it would be all transparent except the bottom left to create the cutout with the background color.
You may be able to use android.graphics.Path to draw the complex shape you want. I found this very helpful for a simple custom View, but it seems like you can do a lot with it:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Path.html
Simple code sample for a shaded rectangle:
private Path mRectanglePath;
...
// draw the path
mRectanglePath = new Path();
mRectanglePath.addRect(mLeft, mTop, mRight, mBottom, Path.Direction.CW);
// draw the fill
Paint paint = new Paint();
paint.setColor(Color.RED);
paint.setAlpha(64);
canvas.drawPath(mRectanglePath, paint);
How do you create an animated dashed or dotted border of an arbitrary shape in Android? In XML (preferred) or programmatically.
See picture below for an example.
Have you seen the PathEffects API demo?
http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/graphics/PathEffects.html
It produces precisely an animated line and you can just adjust the path to the edge of your view to create a border. For example:
Define a path by your view parameters / arbitrary shape:
Path path = new Path();
path.addRect(view.getLeft(), view.getTop(), view.getRight(), view.getBottom(), Path.Direction.CW);
Then create a dashed PathEffect with:
PathEffect pe = new DashPathEffect(new float[] {10, 5, 5, 5}, phase);
Then set the associate it with a Paint object and draw:
mPaint.setPathEffect(pe);
canvas.drawPath(path, mPaint);
EDIT: The animated effect comes from continuously changing the phase and redrawing. In the API demo it calls invalidate() in the onDraw() method (which triggers onDraw()...)
XML... I guess not possible. But you can use a custom view or a SurfaceView and handle the drawing by yourself. Have fun with that :)
Could you use some form of two 9patch images as a background frame around the image file you want to present, one in each of two layouts. The images would differ in terms of the placement of the dashed elements. Interchange the views rapidly (might need a delay) and you might get the effect you want. Don't really know how effective that would be though in terms of being able to let the user continue using the app and chewing battery...