Ok so I'm trying to figured out how i can make a menu similar to a drop down menu, but it goes up instead of down. I'm wanting something similar to This. It would mean I would be creating a list-view. But I'm not sure how it would all work, since I'm using Image-buttons I made in Photoshop. It has to possible since adobe has pretty much done it. But my questions is how? Thank you in advanced.
I guess this is a standard ToggleButton with a background selector that is transparent when not activated and with a transparent black one when active. When the ToggleButton gets pressed, a PopupWindow will be displayed below. The content of this window should be a standard ViewGroup/layout that was passed to that window (transparent black background with a few clickable TextViews basically)
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Currently, I am using Libgdx for making app with lots of animation. I am trying to use android Dialog for showing paragraph with html tags through Interface. While, I can change dim color of background UI back to normal with following code.
paragraphDialog.getWindow().clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DIM_BEHIND);
Is there anything I can do to make background UI work? (Button click, textview focus etc)
And, I have tried GlyphLayout of Libgdx for paragraph. It frequently crashes & also doesn't support html tags. I am using dialogs, as it is pretty easy to use xml layout easily with dialogs. If there are any other options, Please suggest.
Thanks,
your dialog is blocking the entire screen, doesn't matter if the edges/background are somewhat transparent or not 100% alpha, it is still the view that is currently on top. therefor, you can't click on it directly.
i think the best way to achieve your goal is with a fragment. not a dialog.
Can you please tell me how to make this type of pop up? I do not need to design own component in drawable. I don't have much knowledge in Android.
1) First there is Title with blue background .
2) Second there is scrolling list view (without image) and buy button (without image).
Is it possible?
I Googled it to find out if we can make own button like that with some style?
Here is my image
You have to use a Dialog/Pop up in combination with a ListView you have to google that up because its a complex theme.
good look
Start from http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/dialogs.html. You have to implement your own custom dialog layout, likely using a ListView (http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/layout/listview.html).
I am currently developing an android app that displays a list view. When an item from the list view is selected I would like a small window to appear from the bottom of the screen. This window will not cover the entire list view, but take up a small portion of the bottom. On this window will be a few buttons and a progress bar.
My question is would the best way to achieve this be through a popupwindow or is there something else to better suit this?
Thank you for your help.
you could use a Dialog with a custom View (Android Custom Dialog example). Or you can forgo the concept of the pop-up and just "fake it" by adding your "pop-up" View into your normal layout but setting it as invisible. Then when you want to show it make it Visible and populate it with the appropriate data.
I think I understood what you meant. Do you use ActionBarSherkock? If yes, then there is a splitactionbar which is ususally located on the bottom of the screen, when the screen is small. It looks like this:
http://wptrafficanalyzer.in/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/actionbar_menu_sherlock_splitactionbar.png
Is this what you meant? Let me please know.
Edit:
There is something called quick actions. This handels popups very well, but its not displayed on the bottom of the screen tough. But you might want to look at it:
http://londatiga.net/images/quickactions/quickcontact.jpg
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 trying to make an application for android that is based on IPAD app. I want to keep the same look to the app, but I am not a very good designer. So I was wondering if it was possible to for me to crop say the entire header and then have an invisible button or something on top of portions of it. so the design would become a little bit easier. Also if that is possible how would I get the what ever the event item is going to be to overlap with a portion of the image if it has stranger orientation. (I think I could fake this by just moving it closest orientation and extending the size untill it fits, but it would be nice to find a better way.)
How would I go about that?
I tried making the button invisible, but that did not seem to work.
Thanks in advance
I got lost on your description. But if you want to make a button invisible, calling setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE); will not work, because it will not receive click events. You may want to set its color to transparent instead. try using:
button.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);