I often see this UI pattern on Android. It consists of a circle .
First Google Fit uses it.
Timely has the same UI pattern. And you can interact with it , change the timer.
It is not part of Android standard View.
What is the name of this view / UI pattern ?
Can you give links to similar open source library ?
Thanks everyone who posted the comments.
Let's call this custom widget Circular SeekBar
https://github.com/RaghavSood/AndroidCircularSeekBar
https://github.com/devadvance/circularseekbar
https://github.com/TriggerTrap/SeekArc
Or Circular ProgressBar
https://android-arsenal.com/details/1/1513
https://android-arsenal.com/details/1/1446
https://github.com/passsy/android-HoloCircularProgressBar
These are custom widgets, developed by application developers - it's not part of Android Framework, yet it's relatively easy to write own circular widget. See docs here.
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we are trying to achieve a UI design which is similar to the UI shown in this below video:
Video to demonstrate required UI
If anyone has any idea on how to implement this UI, please guide me.
Im new to Android Development, If more information required I'll provide.
You should implement design elements such as RecyclerView, CardView within your gradle and modify them as you like in the XML.
I leave you an example video of UI design in Android Studio that you can follow to achieve what you want: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeQ1XHgQxHw
A bit of context here. I'm an iOS developer with no knowledge on Android development.
I need to know whether it's feasible in Android to embed custom interactive UI elements (in iOS that'd be a UIView) inside of EditText.
A library I found to do this in iOS is: https://github.com/vlas-voloshin/SubviewAttachingTextView
You can see a GIF in that link showcasing the kind of behavior I'm looking for.
Is there built in support, or any third party library I can use to achieve something similar in Android?
in normal way this is not possible in android and we don't have any standard component or any library (that i know) for doing such a thing but we can create something similar to this (for this you should search about custom Views in android !) and also there is other way and easier way to achieve something similar to this is using the container layouts in android like LinearLayout and adding all your component to that container layout in run-time base on your text ! for example in your code you can dive in to your text and find tags like or and create appropriate view for your tag and add it to your container layout and at the end your layout looks like that gif wich is in your question ! and also in android we can show some basic html code in textView
I am in a situation like i have to generate UI Controls like Button,Switcher,Progress Bar, Label text etc based on my list Items .
I am looking for a way to generate the controls in a View and add Views with generated controls in a Layout .
Can anyone give me a proper way to do that?
Why not to use Fragments?
Google docs about this here
and little tutorial here
You may want to take a look at the Metawidget source code. The Android version of Metawidget makes extensive use of generating Views and Layouts at runtime (e.g. see org.metawidget.android.widget.widgetbuilder.AndroidWidgetBuilder). You may even find Metawidget itself will suit your needs (it's designed to be embedded into projects for use-cases such as this).
I am looking for a way to create a short overlay intro of an app to display to first time users. These posts gave me some understanding of how it can be done, but not entirely:
How do I create a help overlay like you see in a few Android apps and ICS?
How to use LayoutInflater / ViewStub for an overlay
I do not understand how to access my elements correctly, since my root layout element is a LinearLayout that includes an Actionbar and a ViewPager instead of containing actual elements.
Are there any frameworks that does this for you?
I think that this library : ShowcaseView is your best option.
As its name implies, it allows you to recreate the Android 4.x showcase view; ie :
.
The documentation of the project explains how to implement it.
Word of advice though : this kind of explanation view is viewed as bad design most of the time : if your application is well designed, you don't need to provide a tutorial to the user, it is supposed to be intuitive.
It can be totally justified in some cases of course, just be sure that :
-your users really need a tutorial.
-it is not because you are doing something opposite to the Android convetions.
Have a look at MaterialShowcaseView. It inherits from ShowcaseView and is up-to-date.
I know basic level Android, but haven't had done animation before. Moreover, I don't have any clue as to how can I create custom Geometrical objects like triangle, Hexagon, etc.
Moreover, I don't know anything about doing animation in Android. I'd like to have relevant tutorial links or blogs which can help understand the basics and preferable a sample code for "Rotation" animation.
Thanks in advance.
http://code.google.com/p/nehe-android/ (the code is best documentation ^_^)
but it is for open gl custom objects on top of your view/surface view, it is commonly used in games.
If you want to do just rotation for Button, there are http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/animation/Animation.html and subclasses of it (RotateAnimation and so on), you can even do a custom one. By this way you can do awesome user experience for application which use default android controls.
Cheers