I've seen a number of apps on Android that replace the navigation bar icons (the triangle, for back, circle, and square) with dots. The button is still there, just less intrusive. Good for games and video apps.
How is this done? I can't find an api for it other than immersive mode.
Try using View.setSystemUiVisibility(SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LOW_PROFILE) on one of the Views in your Activity.
Or, if you want to set it on the window:
getWindow().getDecorView().setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LOW_PROFILE);
To hide completely:
getWindow().getDecorView().setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION);
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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.
I am working on an Android application and have to code up the following design for one of the screens:
(Ignore the yellow stuff, I have just masked the Logo and the App-specific information for now)
My question is: How do I design this particular type of screen? The top pane is akin to an ActionBar in Android. However, when any button on the top pane is hit, this custom "popup" having a rectangular form with a small arrow on top pointing towards the button is display and does not interrupt the current/main activity.
I have looked around, but still dont understand how to accomplish this.
Any thoughts? Thanks!
You can use the native Action Bar along with the icons.
The only problem is if you want to show them all at once.
Some icons may be hidden depending on the size of the phone.
As for the custom pop-up, the toast feature is available to do that.
It is quite easy to adjust the position of toasts and customise toasts :
Customisation of toasts: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/toasts.html#CustomToastView
Changing postion of toasts: How to change position of Toast in Android?
When in some apps, there are those 3 dots in the top right of the app, on the action bar (not the home buttons), which allow for more options. In my app I have on, but I do not know how to make it do a method when it is clicked. Do I use android:onClick="METHOD_NAME ? Or do I need to setup a button variable in my activity class and setup and onClickListener? I have already tried both but I may be doing something wrong.
That three dots are the menu in the action bar. They are always shown on devices without a menu key.
See also the documentation for more details.
Three dots are called Overflow(very aptly named) and to use them you need to use ActionBar which is the top long, horizontal bar showing icons, other buttons along with the Overflow button.
Now in some devices where there is no physical menu button you will always see Overflow button.
Go through Docs and tutorials related to ActionBar but keep one thing in mind that ActionBar is only available for devices with android above HoneyComb. For android devices below 3.0 such as GingerBread or Froyo you will have to use compatibility libraries, so that will be an additional task.
And most notable libraries for this purpose are ActionBarSherlock and AppCompat.
This is a picture of my phone (Android 2.1 with HKC Sense):
The bit that's got a red border around it is in the Clock app and the Media player on my phone. What is it called? Is it a standard Android interface control?
I've been trying to figure out how to get something like this for the past while and I'm not seeing anything immediately obvious.
I've seen a lot of people referring to the ActionBar or Split ActionBar, but that seems to be something that is anchored to the top. I need this to be at the bottom without any component on the top.
*please excuse
It's an actual pic of the phone, rather than a screenshot - the screenshot app I downloaded wouldn't work.
The fact that the pic was taken with an iPhone, and that the apple logo is clearly reflected in the pic.
You can use Split ActionBar
android:uiOptions="splitActionBarWhenNarrow"
And that will force the action bar items to be hosted on the bottom of the screen for narrow devices, mostly phones. When this flag is set, no components are hosted on the top of the ActionBar, unless you use tab navigation.
See example Image
Keep in mind though, that should you be displaying the layout on a non-narrow device, like a tablet, then the items will be attached to the top ActionBar.
Some other things to consider
Creating a custom view, which you can set to the bottom of the layout. The View would be a scrollable ListView per say, and you can add as many icons as you'd like to it. Here's an example. That would not be a standard nav pattern though.
I’ve created a bottom menu and used a relative layout to place it there but I don’t know if I’m going about this the right way. It’s a PNG bar with three images on it one for maps, one for facilities and one for search which all should lead to a three different activities.
How do I make each image a button, I know how to make the whole bar a button, in a webpage you can add an image map and create hotspost with the three links.
How do I do that in an Android application?
Cheers,
Mike.
How do I make each image a button
You use three images, and use each in an ImageButton.
Even better would be to follow platform conventions, either:
Using an ordinary options menu, which will automatically be hoisted to your action bar on Android 3.0+, and where you can make some of those be toolbar buttons if you want for immediate clickablilty
Using an action bar library for all Android versions, such as ActionBarSherlock, so you have the same behavior everywhere, including the toolbar buttons where there is room