I have home screen widget that shows images. Images are switching for some scenario. I need to add fade effect on images switching. Is it some way to do it?
I know how to use animation for my purpose on View, but AppWidget uses RemoteViews...
There is no ordinary thing to do that. The only thing you can do - use bitmap alpha channel for fadding image, but it takes all processor time. My advice - do not do that.
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For my app, I plan to have a grid of images and when you select one the image increases in size and the rest of the images get grayed out. I read about Activity Transitions but have never implemented that before so I'm not sure if this is the appropriate way of achieving the correct affect. I was thinking of possibly using a fragment and an animation to display the image in a larger size but how do I display the activity in the background with a grey tint to it so that it looks out of focus? I'm looking here to see what you think the most appropriate method of making this work. Here is a gif of exactly what I'm trying to accomplish.
At the moment, I am using Euro 2012 app and it has some interesting layout parts. If you go to matches->knockout screen, you'll see 3 screens like this.
If you slide left or right, you move between them not like between one activity to another, but just like all these elements are laid on one big canvas and you slide each screen into focus. Even thou, if you slide left/right, the screen cannot be stopped in the way that half of each image is visible, so I guess it's not a big canvas. Somehow you can slide screen like one big image, and yet it always lock perfectly as if they used 3 activities for this.
How did the do this?
It's a ViewPager, available in Android support package and described in their blog.
The designing is not so much difficult, As i think to draw that boxes showing quarterfinals, semifinals.
They having layout( we can do by placing image in background also).
The major role played by FrameLayout which shows you that effect(emphasis), the flages are fetch from url as matches are decided(not essentially images only names are sufficient as flags came inside app and gets applied as updated).
After your click i think the start image gets change it's just replacing that image with new one.
As you said they are not on single canvas (but if they did customization of heir Viewpager that it's not stopping in between activities), but i think it's on single canvas.
If your taking about quickness of loading and all it's up to you as much code and processing you optimized it gives you smooth feel and fast processing.
We can appreciate the work but we can not say it's too much difficult as i think it's quit easy...
Hope this explanation helps you to understand ....
I am creating turistic app and I have made some significant research about design. Now I want to try in Android display background image in main menu. Do you know, is it possible to have there image, which changes periodically with some transition effects? On background there should be turistic pictures, which will be changing time to time. Is it possible with Android? I am asking here, cos I wasn't able to find solution up to now.
Thanks
Did you tried to use this?
Why not! you can apply a thread which will change the background image from time to time, and if you are going to deploy it not ICS you can have the transition effect also.
I use a navigation-based iOS application. I want to make a background similar to desktop wallpaper in Android.
So when I go to another View the current View and it's content goes outside of the screen but the background image slightly moves only.
See a sample screenshot here.
Why not have the base subview set to the size of the background wallpaper (ie larger than the screens width) and start with it left aligned. Then have a paged UIScrollView on top of that. When the user scrolls the UIScrollview, hook into the UIScrollViewDelegate method
- scrollViewDidScroll: and pass it through the the base subview, telling it to animate in accordance.
This shouldn't be too hard but you'll probably want to tweak it a bit to get the feel you want.Try playing about with the various delegate methods in the UIScrollViewDelegate protocol to determine the best time to start the animation.
I'm attempting to fade between two background images on my Droid, but the animation seems to get 5fps if not less. Is there any method I can use other than fading in\out a couple image views that would be smoother?
You can set your background to be defined by a TransitionDrawable. Used it to develop a nice splash screen that fades in and didn't have any issues.
I'm not exactly sure what you want to do, but if you want to change from one screen to the other within the same app you should use the ViewFlipper.
View Flipper on Android Developer site
This will allow to smoothly change from one screen to the other (much like the iPhone way).
If it is about the actual Android background i can't help you. Sorry.