I started with Android Studio and would like to get started.
I do not like fiddling around with GUIs and would like to play lego with ready-made pages and common standard interfaces.
Where can I find Android GUI XMLs to copy&paste or download to get started?
Does anyone know a good Android resource site, something like templatemonster for Android GUIs?
For example I need:
a settings page with switches, range sliders and a couple of fields, nicely arranged and already profesionallly looking
a user profile page
an inbox/outbox
a speech bubble view
list/grid view with images
a login/signup/lost password menu
You can use library for GUI and many other purpose the best place is Android assets studio
And there is a page that haves tricks for GUI is Android cheat sheet
And Android assets studio for images
If you get stuck visit Android's official site
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I want to create a page made with native android with a small portion (say a horizontal scroll view) made from react-native inside the same android page like an android page with a react-native widget plugged in, such that the app is completely widgetized.
I know that it is possible to do so because I read about it in this article and some companies are using it.
Can anyone help me how to achieve this?
My question is same to this question, I found a few useful articles related to this matter for iOS but I want a solution for android.
I'm learning Xamarin (Forms) at the moment and I want to create a special component for my app so I'm looking for some guidance to get me started.
I'm imagining a component which has a main button in the middle, with text that could be "Birds" followed by the number of birds spotted this week.
Then, for each species spotted this week, there would be a line leading to the species name and the aggregated number of how many of that species have been spotted (so x number of lines). Basically a kind of a grouping diagram which acts like buttons.
I drew it up in mspaint, just without numbers.
I imagine my first step working with Xamarin Forms is to create the component in both Android Studio and Xcode, then package it as an component.
Can my idea be done in both Android and iOS? If so, would you please provide some tutorials on creating something like it, because I haven't come across something that I can use to get started yet.
UPDATE: SkiaSharp looks like the way I should be going.. https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/drawing/introduction/
Xamarin allows you to build mobile apps completely in C# so you don't need native development tools (like Android Studio and Xcode) all development can be done completely in Visual Studio (Mac or PC).
You can totally make what you're describing with Xamarin Forms! In order for you to do it, you must make a Custom Render. See this guide on Xamarin's website for making a custom renderer.
I'm a newbie to android development. I am looking to make an app I already have out on ios for android and am wondering if someone can point me in the right direction as to where I start and what I need. My iPhone app has an initial menu screen with 8 buttons, one links to tableview with search function with detail view attached to both table and results. I then have 4 buttons linking to a container view with swipeable detail view from these and then two buttons linking to web view and the final one to another menu with call, email, directions functions.
Any pointers on where to start, help or sample code would be much appreciated
Thanks Guys!
This website a a good place to start.
http://developer.android.com/tools/index.html
You will need to download an IDE. Eclipse is the typical free IDE that most Android devs use. I recommend downloading Eclipse Classic, but there are great reasons to choose some of the other flavors.
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
That first link has tons of resources, including sample code.
What I mean to say while you're just getting started with the development and say you add a slider theres a predefined skin for that and you can place it somewhere on the screen, but in some apps there are things like a knob in a place of slider which you can rotate to do the same stuff what the slider does . How do they do that, does it require openGL or something I am not asking for a complete tutorial or something just curious on what stuff goes into building such thing
Mostly, if something is not provided out of the box, you will have to build your own control.
For example, you mention a Knob. That isn't available in the Android SDK. Such a control could prove to be useful.
Here is a tutorial to build such a custom Control: http://go-lambda.blogspot.in/2012/02/rotary-knob-widget-on-android.html
This is an image of the final result from the tutorial linked above:
Here is an example of a custom slider / seek bar: http://permadi.com/blog/2011/11/android-sdk-custom-slider-bar-seekbar/
This should give you a rough idea on how to go about creating your own custom views.
And finally, what I personally find the best possible resource for keeping track of almost all good Custom Views is here: http://www.androidviews.net/
The androidviews.net website has shut down. Android Arsenal is a new website that lists several third party Android libraries.
I am an expereinced Java developer but very new to android programming. I am working on a project for one of my clients who wants to create an android application out of a site survey they have been doing by hand (pen and paper).
What I'm looking to do is create a UI mach up to present as a possible solution. I have looked around but cannot find any sample code to create a simple form.
What I want to do:
I want to have a form (that ideally kinda looks like the way mail looks when you are creating a new message) that allows the user to fill out Name, Address, Business Name, etc. As well a as some custom drop downs, buttons, etc.
I want to do this for a tablet pc so I'm targeting Honeycomb 3.x as my platform.
Can someone point me to any sample code to get me started?
I would start by reading some layout tutorials such as this one: http://www.learn-android.com/2010/01/05/android-layout-tutorial/, or the Android developer docs: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/layout-objects.html.
All of the objects you require can be implemented as views in your layout.