I am having trouble using android studio's drag and drop feature. I have no problem getting the items onto the preview mode of the android phone, but when I want to move the palettes, I can't seem to be able to place them where I want. A lot of times I will place let's say a TextView, and it will snap to a different location an inch away. Anyone know if any solutions?
Unless you know a way to un-snappy the editor, it's time to get to know the XML Text Editor, next tab over in Android Studio.
The way I get round the snappy side is in there: use the "android:layout_below="#+id/example" and it's brethren. Unless you have a massive amount of elements, this is very doable.
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I’m quite a newbie around here so this kinda feel like I’m learning sanscrit. Thrilling and overwhelming at the same time.
Anyway, the thing is I'm using wordpress at my laptop and I'm sttrugling at keeping my pics at the size expected when I switch to android. They look totally fine on the laptop preview for the phone, but on the real world they're basically turning into a thumbnail. I attach a picture of expectation versus reality
I apologize in advance because I suspect this is part of the ABC of programming; I don't even know if I should be uploading my pics with a particular size. I promise I'm training to become a proper padawan, and 'll appreciate any feedback.
Thank you so much for your time, and have a great day!
If you are starting with Wordpress, best thing to do is to work with themes supported by Elementor & one that allows you to modify the design for desktop, tablet, & mobile versions separately.
-Select 'Edit with Elementor'
-select the section with these six pictures. in the '#Edit Section' box at the right, you will see three options- layout/content, style, advanced.
-Select 'Advanced' and scroll down till the bottom section.
-Select the 3rd last option, 'Responsive'. From here you can hide the mentioned section for mobile.
It would look something like the attached picture
DO BEAR IN MIND THAT I HAVE ADDED SAME BUTTON TWICE - the button at the left is visible to site visitors using desktop/tablet. At the right part, you can see same button blurred. That's 'cause I hid it from Desktop & Tab.
Similarly, you too have to add section with pictures again to show in mobile only.
For that, find and click on Responsive icon & select Mobile.
Decorate the section just the way you want and do not forget to hide it from PC & Tab.
I started using the USB debugging mode on Android Studio and when i run my project the display on the phone is completely wrong. The ide displays the correct way i want it to look but when i open the app on the phone the app's displayed contents are all thrown into the top of the screen. Why is it doing this? Sorry for huge picture btw.
It seems that you are using ConstraintLayout, but you haven't set any vertical constraints for your views. Therefore, when you run the app, all the views are jumping to the top. Click on the red exclamation mark, it will show you the same thing. Go to the code view, it will also show you the same error.
You should use minimum 2 constraints from top or bottom nd start or end
It will help you views to attach each other
I have a Geniatech ATV1220 android set top box running android 4.2.2 and am using an arduino with motion sensor connected to it to modify content on a website when someone is in front of the sensor via NodeJS.
This works great, but what I would like to do is to manipulte the complete system viewport of the android system. For example if someone steps in front of the sensor, the whole system should be displayed in a reduced size like 1/4 original at the bottom right side of the screen while the other area should just display black or basically nothing.
It is really hard to find something because of the pretty common keywords like display, viewport, size and so on. I could probably do it dependent on individual applications but I also want to use it in third party applications, which I cannot modify.
Currently I am sometimes using commands like this:
echo 1 >/sys/class/graphics/fb0/blank
to modify the actual content that is displayed, in this case it all turns black/blank and I wonder if there is a similar way to achieve what I want to do. Any help is greatly appreciated.
What worked in the end was using the Xposed Framework and installing "One-handed mode" like explained here: How to get a one-handed mode on almost any rooted Android device.
What I want to achieve here is to shrink all of the Android's OS UI (everything inclusive) to use only 70-80% of the screen.
The reason is that I wish to have my area to put in whatever I want - apps icons which exist and are always visible (no matter if I am in a browser, or playing angry bird etc).. its like Windows's quick launch or Mac's dock which always stays there . I can also put some important text that I wish to see throughout my interaction with the device or anything else.
I just want to use 20-30% of the screen-size all by myself and run Android on the remaining portion of the screen.
Do you think it is possible? If so, can you please give me pointers?
Thanks much,
Rohan
There are two solutions for me:
1) create custom Android build. Change WindowManager code a little.
2) create own virtual keyboard which will serve keyboard and your stuff (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/inputmethodservice/InputMethodService.html)
I am trying to develop an android application. I've put a scroll view as main container using graphical layout in eclipse. After that, I had put some UI elements, like buttons. When the total height of elements become more than viewable area, it can be seen using scroll view as expected. There is no problem until this point. The problem is the elements that are not fit viewable are of the screen can not be seen using graphical container of the eclipse interface. There is no problem with the source code, as it runs expectedly. Is there any option in the Eclipse gui to see the UI elements that are not fit the viewport?
I know what you're talking about. When you're viewing the xml file on the Eclipse Graphical layout you can only see the elements that fit on the screen. You can't scroll down to see the entire UI.
I use Eclipse at home and work. I'm using Eclipse Helios Service Release 1, on both systems. For some reason at home, when I'm on the graphical layout, there's a button on the upper right of the graphical viewer that says something like 'Remove Clipping'. (I'm at work now. So can't look to see exactly what it says).
When I click that button, I can now scroll down to see the entire UI. However, on my copy of Eclipse at work that same button isn't displayed. I've tried to figure out what the difference is between the setup on the two copies of Eclipse. But so far haven't been able to figure it out. Note, I've tried viewing the same exact xml file, within the same project, on both copies of Eclipse.
The problem seems to only occur when you're using a scrollview and all the ui elements won't fit on the graphical layout screen within Eclipse.
I have the same problem. I've been unable to troubleshoot, so I've resorted to using my physical device instead. I try to get the bulk of work done within the the Eclipse GUI... then nudge and polish with my device. Its a PITA to be sure, uploading what seems like a million times only to move one element a tiny bit more.
Best practices recommend developing on a device. Further, the Layout-tools && scrollView basically make it mandatory to really know what is going on. I can't seem to form this into a coherent search argument as my Google-fu has let me down on this one.
BTW - I'm using the shiny new r10 ADT plugin and I've been struggling with this for about 6 months.
Another workaround: You can use a smaller-ish tablet port in the GUI to get a really rough idea of what you are working with.
If your target layout is for a phone or smaller device, simply switch the preview to a larger screen size configuration.
In the upper left corner, under where it says 'Editing config: ~default', The list provides you with a number of screen sizes to target. Pick the 10.1 in version, and it will scale the preview, and will then allow you to see and work with all of the views that have scrolled off the screen.
Cheers-
I think this is an old topic but I was having the same issue. I have 2 apps made from outsourcing. when I opened each in eclipse one would show the full contents of the scrollview and one was clipped off. After numerous google searches nothing came up as a solution. I just happen to look and saw the app that is clipped was android version 1.6 and the app that shows everything like i wanted it to so I can use the graphical layout for a scrollview was android verion 2.1.
So i changed the one app to version 2.1 and it fixed it. noone seemed to address that. so for me the fix was make sure the android version you are building for is 2.1. you can always change it back to 1.6 compatable after you are done designing.
Hope this helps
The best way i could figure out is to give negetive top margin to the root layout that will make the rest of the content visible. This is only for dev purpose and should be removed when completed