I would like to edit the application menu in Android (where all apps and widgets are displayed).
Like this:
I would like to create an app where you can select how the icons (applications) are shown in this menu. I'm not sure if it is even called "application menu" so I'm having some trouble to find some more info about this matter.
If anyone could help me find a way to override the original layout or point me in the right direction, that would be awesome!
Thanks in advance!
What you are showing in the pic, is called a Launcher.
You can create a custom Launcher. Check this question to get started.
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I'm working on an app where the Main Activity has an Overflow Menu, that has two option/items in it About and Help. What I want is a way that if I clicked on say About, a card would come up on the screen over the Main Activity (not hiding it completely, being translucent) to show some text. I have looked it up and I have seen people talking about 'Dialogue Boxes'. I don't want that because it doesn't look "Material Designed", so if there is any other way I could achieve it or if there's some way I could make the Dialogue Box look like a "Card floating above the Main Activity".
I can assure you that dialogs are part of the material design, see https://www.google.com/design/spec/components/dialogs.html#dialogs-specs
But if you want to show more than very little information, I'd suggest you create an About activity.
You can use Material Dialog Library
What i want is to build an app that reads very long text from database and display it into lot of pages. And i also wanted to have onTouchEvent i think for the First screen. And will be shown like this, http://imgur.com/BZ6FC3m,ja0qNX5#1. When its touched it will like this http://imgur.com/BZ6FC3m,ja0qNX5#0. Can you help me with this, i just wanted to know where should i start from here. Maybe some link which is just like this or something like this one, just something i can refer to and get started
u can use "SystemUiHider"
for example create new project in android studio , in "Add an Activity " Select FullScreen Activity and run :)
I am developing an application in android. I have an Activity where I have a couple of buttons. Among them when I click on one button, I want to get dropdown like iPhone default picker.
To achieve that, I am using Android wheel concept. I have implemented like this, when I click on the button, it is calling another activity where my required custom layout is shown. Problem is custom layout should come from bottom of the screen in the same activity where the button I am clicking exists.
I have attached a screenshot. I want to achieve as shown in the screenshot (missing).
Please help me providing the required solution. Pardon me if there any mistakes in my question. This is the first time to ask a question.
Since the lack of a screenshot that helps to understand your issue, this is more some kind of guess: Are you known to the concept of Spinners in Android? They provide a dropdown mechanism and are easily implemented.
This is a bit difficult to explain, so I'll try to give a simple example to what I'd want to implement.
A. When the menu button is pressed in the Market app there are some kind of tabs on the buttom, how can I implement this ?
B.now press the settings (after you press the menu button in the Market app),
Is there a way to create this kind of a layout or I have to start from scratch (I would really appreciate code example for this if there is no 'easy' way to do this).
What you are referring to here is not a layout. This is the standard way of creating menues in Android applications.
Have a look at the following topic in the Android developer guide: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/menus.html
And regarding your second question: for settings/preferences, you can use a PreferenceScreen/PreferenceActivity. This is shown pretty well here: http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2011/01/android-quick-preferences-tutorial.html
If, by tabs you mean the buttons that pop up after clicking menu, you will have create your own options menu.
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/menus.html
EDIT: For B, check out the PreferenceScreen/PreferenceActivity, as mention in an answer to this post. Just updating here with link for convinience.
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/preference/PreferenceScreen.html
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/preference/PreferenceActivity.html
I'm trying to add my Android activity to the menu on the homescreen (the one with: add, wallpaper, settings, search, notifications).
I suspect this is done from the AndroidManifest.xml, but I can't figure out how.
Am I looking at the right place? And if so, what am I missing?
You can't add your application there. That's controlled by the "home activity" which you don't have control over (for good reasons, otherwise anyone could add anything there).