I need a way to show off concept designs of an android application on an android phone to simulate that it is running. Basically just being able to tap to advance to the next photo/screen would be sufficient with a tap ANYWHERE on the screen. Any tools you know that would be helpful?
Eclipse with Android toolkit.
Write a small program. wont take up much time.
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No coding is required. Create an android project Using Eclipse android project, you can visually create UI prototype (i.e. drag and drop .. no coding). Use main.xml after developing each screen run the project in emulator, you can take screenshot of the same (either using eclipse DDMS plugin's snapshot capability or using Alt+Print screen in windows or something similar in other OS). Use this screenshot in a powerpoint presetation . Repeat the same process for a second screen (overwrite the same main.xml so that you dont have to write code). take screenshot again. Add the required animations in powerpoint.
Is there any other option that does not involve any code?
The easiest way I can think of is:
1. Take screen shots(wireframes, screen prototypes) for every screen flow you wish to demonstrate.
2. add them in proper sequence(regulated by sequence number) to your sdcard.
3. Open Picture gallery and use swipe gesture to transition and cycle between screen, walk through all the screen flows.
Do it photoshop, create images, add it to an activity. Create a layout that fills the parent, add it as a background. Then implement a ontouch method to finish the activity and load the next. Quite simple.
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I am working on the Nativescript+Angular application and I am done with my assignment but now I want to change the default opening page image of NativeScript app.
I have tried but unable to find that. Please let me know if anyone knows.
Please see the image. I want to change this image.
NativeScript Sidekick makes changing assets like this for iOS and Android a breeze.It will help you by generating assets like the splash screen or app icon from a single image for all the different required resolutions.
https://www.nativescript.org/nativescript-sidekick
What you see upon launch is called Launch Screen or Splash Screen.
The default configuration allows you to showcase a static image upon launch, you may update the images for iOS at App_Resources/iOS/Assets.xcassets Or Android at App_Resources/Android/src/main/res/drawable-***/background.png
On iOS, you may design your own customised launch screen if you are familiar with Storyboard, the default story board file may be located atApp_Resources/iOS/Assets.xcassets/LaunchScreen.storyboard.
If you like some sort of animation upon launch screen, checkout nativescript-splashscreen plugin.
Hi i have a app contain 3 page. and i want to set one page as background like android home screen. I search in google and i found this and this
tutorial's but i couldn't use it for my target can anyone show me another better example thanks.
i mean How can i create app like android home screen which have one picture for 5 pages background (in my phone).
at last i found my answer and that was so simpler that i think.
that was not a live wallpaper that was simple trick using scroolview for background of main layout and listen to onPageScrollStateChanged.
that's it.
I'm developing quite a few homescreen widgets and currently I have to install them on my emulator or my phone in order to preview the layout.
Is it possible to preview the layout in Eclipse? When I open the XML of my layout in the preview mode, it displays it as it it were an activity and therefore the scaling is entirely wrong.
You can use jimu as a plugin into Eclipse to achieve it. Jimu is a drag & drop style App creation tool for Android. That's the most suitable tool to allow you achieve what you have in mind to get WYSIWYG, as it will enable you to have live previews of Android layouts. You have also the option to use it with Eclipse, or with Android Studio or any other editor of your choice.
To avoid the need to compile-install-run, jimu Mirror gives you live previews of your app that update as you code.
As you can image, the most positive fact about Jimu is that it speeds up Apps development times.
Alternatively, you can use IntelliJ IDEA. IntelliJ IDEA also allows you UI layouts preview.
Thus allowing you achieve WYSIWYG. And equally IntelliJ IDEA gives you the option to integrate it with Eclipse. Of course, alternatively you may decide to simply completely to move to Intellij IDEA. It is available in a commercial edition as well as in a free open source community edition.
IntelliJ IDEA UI designer allows you to build application UI by dragging widgets from its side palette. In version 13 you can simultaneously preview the UI you’re creating on multiple devices, by just selecting Preview All Screen Sizes from the device drop-down. Preview displays all changes made through the UI designer or XML editor in real time.
Such tools for GUI implementation from Jimu and IntelliJ IDEA remembers a little bit Qt Designer, which is available also for Android. In fact, any approach that properly works, allowing interactive Android UI quick development, is a greatly welcome valuable tool for developers that should be well used to improve productivity.
At the top of the view in Eclipse switch to the Holo Panel theme. If you need your own theme attributes then create tour own theme override that parent's to this. Then you could choose that in the editor.
it displays it as it it were an activity and therefore the scaling is entirely wrong.
If it displays as an Activity, then create a dummy Activity that mimics the home screen. Then use a theme, or use an include tag to include the layout from your widget into the cell(s) of that larger dummy home screen.
This solution isn't ideal, but it should be able to give you a better approximation (if what you're looking for is just to tweak the layout of your widget).
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...
I'm implementing a screenshot feature for Android 2.3 (I know that ICS has a screenshot feature already). I'm using the Android Screenshot Library (ASL for short) project as a base, and I'm modifying it to suit my needs. I can also freely modify Android's source code for it. The goal is to have something like what the Galaxy Note does: you take a screenshot with a key press combo and then an editor shows up which allows you to change the image however you like. You could take a screenshot anywhere: on the main screen, while using apps, etc.
Right now I have 3 working parts: a native binary that captures the screen buffer, a service that talks to the native binary and retrieves the screenshot, and the editor. But I'm not sure how I could join the 3 things together. The native binary can be added to the Android prebuilt part and init.rc can be modified to execute it as root when booting (I still have to do this though). The editor is a simple app that can be included in Android as well. But I still can't figure out what to do with the service.
Ideally I'd like to capture a key press combo (say power button and volume down, or maybe two of the front buttons), which would trigger the service. The service would then call the binary to take a screenshot and launch an intent to open the editor with the screenshot. However, as far as I know a service cannot catch key presses. Besides, the service has to be bound somewhere in order to know when it has to take a screenshot, so I guess that I should modify Android itself to start the service and bind to it at startup, but the documentation regarding Android source code is lacking and I have no clue where to start looking.
Does anyone know what component of Android is in charge of the key presses, and where I should bind my service? Is my approach even possible at all?
Thank you in advance for any possible help.
Take a look here. It suggest using the camera button, which is certainly better than overloading other system buttons.