Can anyone tell me what control or how do you create the pop-up effect used in these images to display the legend?
The screenshots are taken from an app called FlyOKC.
Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you.
This is not exactly a custom dialog. But, yes it is still a customized view. And it is more or less called Quick Action Dialog in android. I would suggest you to follow the tutorials below for generating an exactly same popover (or even better) with Android. Check the screenshot also.
http://www.londatiga.net/it/how-to-create-quickaction-dialog-in-android/
http://www.androidpatterns.com/uap_pattern/quick-actions (Pattern Reference)
That's certainly using a custom version of a dialog. The idea is to implement your layout in a xml and inflate it in a dialog. There's a lot of tutorials around, try that one.
Actually, that can be achieved by using RelativeLayout and switching the legend view's visible state between View.VISIBLE and View.GONE in button's click handler.
To get the exact animation you'll need to jump some hoops.
Here are related threads:
How does one Animate Layout properties of ViewGroups?
How do I animate View.setVisibility(GONE)
Also, I think another (and possibly easier) way would be to use Fragments API with transition effects, in which case this is the thread to read:
Animate the transition between fragments
Related
I have a button which on clicking opens another activity which comes up from below and covers half the screen. I searched about it but did not get any useful approach except the overridePendingTransition function which is useful in getting the animation on activity transition, but this didn't solve my problem. I know this is done in google hangout as shown in the images but can't find any useful solution.
When we press the button this activity comes up and covers half the screen size
when we scroll up the activity becomes our main activity
Any idea how this can be done?
Thanks
you can use bottom sheet for this type of UI.
here is first sample.
another sample
here is code
After some searching i got exactly what i wanted with all the codes, but still the profile picture animation is remaining, rest the SlidingPanelLayout code can be seen here . It contains some detailed information with all the classes implemented which you can use directly. I think this will surely help you. :D
Edit: As said by #MrsEd i would like to add some code that helped me. This is the custom built DraggableLayout which you can use directly, the code can be found here. Then the activity must implement the onStopVerticalDragDown() of the DraggableLayoutCallbackListener inteface and set the content view as this xml file.
Hope this clears all the doubt and makes it easier for anyone to implement their own custom built DraggableLayout without using any third party library. :D
Please. Don't redo this.
And instead, use Flipboard's BottomSheet.
At the top there is the favorites/styles/all channels
i don't know what that widget/control is i need to know what it is
i am certain i saw it before i just can't seem to find it again.
then there is a listview which is easy to implement no help needed there
then the same control again, i need to know how to build it.
it looks like a native Android control, i know how i can make one just like it using image buttons but i am sure i am missing something.
P.S. this is an image from sky.fm app on android
EDIT: I Do no need help with the ListView i already did that
What i do need help with is how to make the "favorites/styles/all channels" buttons if there is a way to do natively.
If there isn't a way to do natively, and you are sure just say there isn't a way to do natively ( that would be a good answer )
the perfect answer would be a working code, but i am not lazy i am already implementing the code my self
There's no native control for this. It's probably a Button or maybe ToggleButton. You could create a background xml with different states for selected true or false. And when you click the button toggle the selected state.
Top might be a custom tab layout, or just a bunch of buttons with custom styling.
Main part looks like a listview with complex row views.
Bottom almost definately is a bunch of buttons.
You can implement it using ClickableListAdapter.There is also tab implementation.try it.
Just make it using image buttons and put filters in your ListView, or create your own filter form scratch !
I have a need to create a circular dial/rotary style component for use in an application. It's essentially a circular menu that allows users to select from the items that are ringed around it, and then they can click the button in the center to activate the selected item. However, I've never created a custom UIView of this type, and don't really know where to begin. Can anyone give me any pointers as to how I would draw the view and then rotate it as the user drags their finger? I obviously know how to intercept touch events, etc. but I'm not sure how to actually go about manipulating the UI appropriately. Any tips or pointers would be great!
I don't know if you've already found a solution to this, but here is a nice overview of how to get started:
http://shahabhameed.blogspot.com/2011/05/custom-views-in-android.html
For you, I think you can extend an existing View, that View being the SeekBar. You can take the standard SeekBar and draw it in a circle.
Finally, here is a source code that does the rotation with a volume knob. It is its own project though, so you have to do some work to use it in your own app.
http://mindtherobot.com/blog/534/android-ui-making-an-analog-rotary-knob/
Good Luck!
I have a neat library to do this. It is extremely stable and well maintained. https://bitbucket.org/warwick/hgdialrepo
Heres a youtube demo: https://youtu.be/h_7VxrZ2W-g
This library comes with a demo app with source code and the demo app actually uses a dial as a menu, So I think this should be the perfect solution for you.
After seeing the last screenshots of new foursquare application and their balloon like cartoon instructions, I'd like to create some of these in my application.
I found a similar question for iPhone
Small popup for instructions... How?
Here is another screenshot of foursquare app:
I'd like to know how I could achieve that with Android.
Thanks in advance for any help.
UPDATE: This is what I could get so far but adding some buttons with a custom drawn background and layering them with a FrameLayout:
But I still couldn't get the triangle effect. Maybe there is something I can do with my custom background shape?
UPDATE2
After checking your suggestions, I decided to go with Aaron C idea and added an image with an arrow on it. This is my current result:
Thank you Snailer, QuickAction API project seems very much promissing. I'll check it out when implementing more features in my app.
Now, I just need to get the right color or maybe I could just let it this way. It seems nice too.
And, so, to summarize what I did:
Got my initial xml layout inside a FrameView.
As I'm using a frameview, everything I put in here will be piled one over the other. That's how I could add things to the layout.
In that framelayout, I put 2 relativelayouts whith an image with the triangle and a button to create the two upper popups. In the bottom I put a button only.
That's it. I hope it helps somebody.
Thank you very much again for all your help!
That sounds like a neat thing to implement. There might be a built-in Android variation on AlertDialog that achieves this, but if not here is how I would go about implementing it:
Create a new Activity whose background is black with a very high (low?) alpha color value. This will allow you to see through it to the previous Activity in the stack. Then, add your alert at whatever coordinates you like using a relative layout with padding values.
You might also want to add a touch listener that exits the Activity if the user touches the balloon (or maybe anywhere in the screen).
If you want to be fancy with coordinate placement of the balloon, you can pass this information into the new Activity using the Activity's launch Intent with the putExtra() methods.
It's probably achieved through skinning a toast.
The developer documentation shows a skinned toast in "Creating a custom toast view" at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/toasts.html
You may want to look at the QuickAction API. It acheives this by using PopupWindow, skinned, positioned, and animated.
I am currently working on an Android app, I have completed all the 'hard stuff', such as getting my database working, and so on. Now I need to make the UI look decent.
I would like to make something that has a 'frame' layout that is clickable. You would click on a 'frame' to find out more information, a bit like the Amazon app.
If anyone has any ideas, tutorials or good links, I would be very grateful.
Thanks in advance.
Take a look at Gallery. It's built in to Android and does what I think you're looking for (at least, it describes the Amazon app's UI; since FrameLayout has a very explicit meaning in Android that is not at all what you're talking about, I ignored that part).
EDIT: A screenshot would have been helpful but I think you're actually talking about a simple list-like view.
Oh. That's either a ListView, or more likely just a vertical LinearLayout inside a ScrollView. I can tell you what I'd do: Each item in the LinearLayout would have a background set, with a width of match_parent and a height of wrap_content, using a 9patch with the right-pointing arrow inside it. I'd also define an identical but blue-highlighted version of the image for the pressed state and use a state drawable XML to let it know which to use. Then I'd just bind an onClick listener for each item I wanted to fire off a click action on.