I want to implement an activity inside my Android app which will show all photos that are inside the smartphone.
I searched everywhere for how to do it but all I found was tutorials suggesting to use Intent.ACTION_PICK . but I want to show it inside a activity in my app and not by calling other app in the smartphone.
any suggestions or hint of how to do it or how to implement my own gallery ?
So i got a lot of solutions online but none of them were simple and complete. First i tried using imageview and adding external libraries for zooming etc. but i couldn't find one which had all the functionality we see in a gallery app without being extremely slow. I read something about canvas though don't know what it is. I also found "zooming a view" in android official tutorial but it was just a single tap zoom. So which is the best solution (in terms of functionality and speed) for this: I want an activity to show just a single image such that the user can zoom/rotate/pan it as its gonna contain text that the user needs to be able to read. So basically just like a gallery app. Is it possible to call on the gallery app activity to display this image? Why doesnt android have better support to do this? What is the best way you would suggest.
Hi i have a app contain 3 page. and i want to set one page as background like android home screen. I search in google and i found this and this
tutorial's but i couldn't use it for my target can anyone show me another better example thanks.
i mean How can i create app like android home screen which have one picture for 5 pages background (in my phone).
at last i found my answer and that was so simpler that i think.
that was not a live wallpaper that was simple trick using scroolview for background of main layout and listen to onPageScrollStateChanged.
that's it.
I'm developing a photo manipulation app and am wondering if there is a way to have something come up for my app after the user takes an image of a picture (by somehow changing the camera app). Another example of something like what I want to do would be something like changing the calender app to also put in a location and use GPS to find directions to that location. Is there a way to do this? If so how?
As I understand from your question, you want your app to appear when the user takes a photo using the native camera app. Although that's possible (not saying it's easy), a better solution would be to launch the camera intent from YOUR app (or display what the camera sees in a SurfaceView), and use it as you wish. You wouldn't want to change the default behavior of built-in apps in the system, and users will thank you for not doing so.
There are countless tutorials out there that teaches you how to make use of built-in apps' functionalities for your own. As an example, here's an SO thread that teaches how to use the built-in camera to take a picture, and use the resulting data in your app.
If you want direction of a location, you need to use Google Maps API (or similar), not GPS. To put stuff into Google Calendar, look at their API as well.
I don't know if you can change the app itself, but you can definitely integrate your application with another android applications. There are several examples that can show you how to acess the camera app to take a picture and return this picture to your app for manipulation, or accessing a picture from your gallery (take a look in Intent class, and you can use it with startActivityonResult, and on onActivityResult, inside your activity, you manipulate the picture).
Hope that helps
I am new to Android and have an app on the Market that I would like to convert to use Fragments so it could take advantage of the tablet in landscape mode and have both activities side by side. All of the examples I can find out there use a listview with a image or text in the right column and uses the FragmentList class. My app has an Activity that has buttons and depending on what buttons or spinners they select it then displays another activity. Can anyone recommend a tutorial or article on how to do this? I have read the Google blog but found it confusing and wasn't sure how to use it to modify my existing code. Any help would be appreciated.
This is a good tutorial http://portabledroid.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/programmatic-and-layout-fragments/