Is it possible to create a fog effect on the screen of an android phone. iFoggy was able to get this effect (see picture) for an iPhone.
Is it possible to achieve the same for an android app. I just want the foggy effect and don't want anything to happen when the user touches the screen.
I'm guessing this might be achieved using Bitmap but I've never used that before so any tips would be helpful.
you can have a look at this question here to have Blur Effect for your screen
Make a transparent activity. Refer this answer. click
And set the background for the layout of this activity, a transparent PNG file. Here is the PNG file.
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I've been working on this problem for 2 days now. What I'm trying to achieve is to make a bitmap fill the complete non-transparent background of a 9patch drawable (a speech bubble in this case).
Instead of this
I want something like this
(Yes, bad photoshopping, but serves its purpose.)
Is that even possible? I cannot provide any code, as I don't have any that would make my problem more clear. Sorry about that.
Regards,
D.
OK, I've read a lot of tutorials and even downloaded some examples, but for the love of Stackoverflow, I can't get my image to stretch like I want it to and I'm hoping that someone can help me out here.
I create an image that is to be the background of a button object in Android. Here is the image:
Now, I'd like for it to stretch to the desire size of the button, whether the button is 50x50dp or 200x100dp. One thing I don't want is the border to stretch as it will look distorted, so I want to specify not to include the border, but stretch everything else to the desired size of the button.
Can someone please show me where the black lines need to go in order to achieve my goal? Do I have to change my original image in order to achieve my goal?
Thank you in advanced.
David
It's very simple using this tool Android Asset Studio: Simple 9-Path Generator. Although no matter how you do it you will have stretching and distortion due to the textured (non-patterned) background. I would stay away from that style both personally and for usability.
One of the applications in my mobile has this glossy and transparent look(refer the snapshot below), which is quite beautiful. Just want to know how I can achieve this.
I am developing an application for myself and want to implement similar kind of GUI. Although I can create a layout, I am still not good in creating beautiful icons like the one shown above. Any information (or) a link to icon development related tutorials should also be quite helpful. Thanks everyone in advance.
Those are just PNG images with transparency and glossy effect... it almost has nothing to do with programming. Just find a good designer and tell him/her to do a 9patch image like that.
By the way... background buttons, in that case should have the border only. The icon and text can be then added easily.
You have to combine multiple techniques. You can use Button where the background will be defined with a nine-patch image, with rounded corners. Then you can use android:drawableLeft parameter of the Button, to define the icon it will have.
As also Cristian suggests, this is not hard to implement. You need a good designer and get to know the basic techniques like 9patch png images, transparency and basic layout definitions. Good luck
I recently downloaded an app from the market called WunderList and it has this neat effect on a Edit Text for transparency
I am trying to recreating the same effect for one of my applications but I am not really getting anywhere. I initially thought it is just transparency but I was wrong. Now I have put an image with shadow as the EditText's BG an trying to set it's alpha. I am not sure If I am on the right path. I would appreciate any guidance on this.
I got this done through a custom 9patch image. Here's a sample result.
It's not close but I am getting closer.
That's actually the way we do it.
We use a 9patch PNG with transparency.
I want to have a gradient on my app background. The picture is only ten pixels wide and I would like it to repeat horizontally. Then I have the background set to the color where the gradient ends vertically. In CSS I could easily do this by this code:
background: url("bg.png") repeat-x #0f0f0f;
But I have no idea how to do this on android. I tried setting a bitmap but everytime I put it in the XML the app force closes on me and there doesn't seem to be "repeat-x" like option on it.
So what would be the best way to handle this?
you can use bitmap shader to repeat a particular bitmap .
Refer to this link
Also check this Api Demo Example