I'm starting in android. I want to add a menu to my application
How can I do it.
Thank you in advance.
The documentation offers a listing of the full features of Menu including ways to get started using them in your applications.
Furthermore, the Android Developers site also has a great guide covering the various uses/styles/etc of Menus in Android.
I would highly encourage you to look at the documentation at the Android Developers site simply because it is well done and gives thorough answers to these types of questions (particularly getting started questions).
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I'm currently trying to learn how to write custom services and have them start up at boot, all in the Android Source code.
Could anyone point me to the right references (books, online articles, etc) that discuss this specific topic and as well as understanding AOSP/Android operating system in general?
To learn how to write a custom Service you can look at the docs here.
You'll want to learn about Activities and their Lifecycle in the docs here
And you'll want to learn about the Application fundamentals in the docs here
Once you have an idea of how everything works fundamentally, there are tons of tutorials on the internet that will show you how to code specific things. A simple Google search will find you all of that.
Hope this helps!
I'm porting an app from iOS to Android, I've read a couple of books and am kind of learning as I go along. One thing I'm having trouble with is finding a document, app or website that will show me the different types of widgets available and what they're called. Does anybody know of any resource that does this?
I'm asking specifically because I stumbled on this lovely thing in the Android docs and can't for the life of me find out what the widget is.
That particular widget is the NumberPicker. Most of the widgets are in the android.widget package. You can also look at the User Interface developer guide that has some good information.
List sections are used quite a lot in Android through out Google's own applications and in some of the framework's features as well, i.e. preferences.
This made me wonder if there is an offical section View available in Android? If so, it seems to be hidden.
Here's a picture from the Android Design site that shows what I'm talking about:
This made me wonder if there is an offical section View available in Android?
No, sorry. There are plenty of libraries for this, and you can probably grab some code out of AOSP for it as well, but there is nothing in the SDK for it. Just because the design folk think it is a good idea does not mean that we actually have code in the SDK to leverage such ideas.
Pretty much the title. I'm new in android development. So, I'm interesting about developing rich application, but cannot find a good tutorials. I would be realy appreciated if someone guide me some resources for start.
Maybe there is some open source project where I can find helpful information?
Thank you
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Is there some guide from start to end where explained how to make an application such a twitter app? Or any other kind of complex and start to end described application?
I would recommend starting here. The Google UI guidelines. It explains the different API for creating UI elements and also gets into pros/cons about icons, menus, fonts and so on.
http://developer.android.com/design/index.html
http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/sites/teach.appinventor.mit.edu/files/MIT%20App%20Inventor%20Development%20Overview_0.pdf
http://cs.usfca.edu/~wolber/appinventor/bookSplits/ch4NoTexting.pdf
These are some of the links that i found very useful for complex android app development.
I have a background in java and i would like to learn how to design user interfaces in 24 hours for android.Can anyone give me an advice on how to go about it in terms of resources.
I hope Android Developer Site has more info about UI..
You can use this link.. http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/index.html
I advice you to study about UI simultaneously with working on Android development, so that you will be familiarized with terms as well as what to use when and where..
Make sure you go through the newly launched Android design website:
http://developer.android.com/design/index.html
You can learn about styling, colors, patterns, typography, interaction patterns, navigation and much more.