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.
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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've developed different personal apps for android and now i'm interested in google cardboard project
So, would be possible to create an application for android to implement the same system of this project : http://www.vrdesktop.net ( windows only ). In few words mirroring the android screen inside another app that will split everything ..
actually i don't know if there are some usefull api/ways to accomplish the job.
EDIT1: i've prepared a draw to better show the idea: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/15AYvjesIhZDTe5mfOmm5TzhRkyxmDA6L0jI9MzdKbB4/edit
After long researches i've found an open source project that is doing exactly what i was looking for:
https://github.com/frma71/sbs
P.S. Thank you for useless downvoting
Im trying to develop an android app that when the user presses a cwerain number of objects in the screen will check if the user should switch to another view(throgh the pageview class) and change it if nessacery
how can i do that?
after doing the validation on the view class do you know how can i render the view?
Tnx
It seems that you are just getting started with Android developement (cool!). It would be easier for you if you went through the Getting Started guides in developer.android.com.
Guides like these.
Personally I would start by experimenting with the samples included in Android SDK. Check this question on how to to do that.
I'm creating my first app in iOS and I'm very accustomed to developing in eclipse for Android. My first step is that I need to create a dashboard as the homescreen. I'm a little "confused" as of which layout I should choose in xcode. In android I always select the most basic of settups, and I end up with a blank activity and a blank layout. That's where I would like to start, since that's what I'm used to. I'm wondering if any experienced iOS dev can point me in the right direction into which template to start with.
It seems really easy to just say to use an empty application, but If I'm going to have to do a lot more settup that is not worth my time, then please enlighten me.
You' probably want to go with a single view application. This will give you a template with a view controller and a blank interface file (your choice of xib or storyboard) that you can build from. From there you can add what ever you want.
Using this template you will immediately be able to build your app to the simulator or to your device. However, if you already have an idea of how you would like your app to work, you could choose tab based if your app should have multiple tabs and most of the work will be done for you, or a utility based app will give you two view controllers, one of which will be presented modally. Etc, etc...
hi I'm using Eclipse at the moment, and I'm not sure if there is a plug in for it or a better piece of software I can use. It seems fine for the Java side The problem I have is with XML editing, the line up of the characters is very inconsistent and when editing my layouts, I work with a graphic view open and a code view open, but the two are not linked, so if I double click on an element it switches from graphic view to code view in that pane. it would be awesome if I could link the two open panes?
Please see the screen shot for my desired outcome.
I understand that this question could be seen as discussion based, but I am seriously just looking for a solution here. The example I show is very simple, but some of the xml files turn out quite large and complex, and it is becoming more important to me to find a solution for this.
You can use DroidDraw for ui designing. Although it is a bit buggy, but at-least you dont need to edit raw xml files if you use this.
I am now using the Android eclipse Juno development kit, and while I still dont have dual window available, the double click select is working. there is also an Outline pane which shows the layout, although annoyingly this doesn't show comments very well.