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Sometimes I know that a GUI element looks like but I don't know the name used in Android. With most other GUI the tutorial would have a list of all GUI elements with a nice graphic besides it so you know what it will look like. Does something link this exist for Android.
Not entirely up to date, but this list is useful.
This is not exactly what you asked, but I think it might help:
Pencil Homepage (mockups)
Android Draw (android application to see your UI on a real device)
PSD file (sample elements of the UI)
Several utilities
Also, remember that in the world of android almost every brand and every carrier change things a little bit to make it "better". This means that many UI elements may look different or have different colors in many devices. Also remember that different android versions (1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2...) also have some differences.
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Is it possible to add an animation flash to my android studio project?
Long answer short:
As far as I know no.
Why?
Because there are more performant ways you can do this on Android.
You have different other options you can investigate further if you want some nice animations in your app.
One is to make a Custom View extending either View or ViewGroup where you have all the liberty you want to draw on a Canvas.
Another popular approach nowadays is to use AnimatedVectorDrawable.
You can use a relatively 'simple' vector animation and have it up and running in no time.
You can use this AndroidIconAnimator which is an online tool which will help you a lot if you use this approach.
You can check out this post for a 'tutorial' on how to use this tool.
And last but certainly not least I would recommend taking a look at Facebook's tool for animations KeyFrames I personally haven't used this one, but it looks very promising.
It comes as close to your question as possible.
This tool allows you to export an Adobe After Effects project into a running animation on your phone.
They used it internally for their reactions/emoticons.
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I'm searching for tools that would allow me to index and navigate within AOSP source tree a little bit easier.
My team works mostly at the lower level (so C and C++), but we interface with Java quite a bit. Currently we use:
ack-grep,
ctags,
cscope.
Since we're building a whole platform, we're not limited to just our code, but sometimes also need to understand better what's happening inside Android.
I currently make an attempt to use OpenGrok -- indexing is far from being done and the log is already swollen from git warnings.
The tools we currently use are hardly a convenient way to navigate the code. I would like to reach out for Android hackers wisdom - how do you navigate the code?
For the Java part Android Code Search is quite a blast. Unfortunately, I think it's "online-only" And also, for the low-level (C/C++) stuff things need to evolve a bit.
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I've look all over and i didn't find any good tool that could help me to create themes for my application.
Not that o don;t need to create layouts, but to customize appearance of existing layouts.
Ideal would be a tool that would load layouts from my android application and work on them, but it would me more than sufficient to work on some demo layouts.
Maybe something similar as this web tool http://jquerymobile.com/themeroller/?ver=1.1.0&style_id=20120622-116
It would be nice to have predefined themes.
Do you know such a tool ?
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Android Asset Studio has many useful tools, especially the Holo editor.
You can get pretty decently designed icons and PSD templates here
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I know there have been questions here before about keyboard dev, but none of their answers seemed to help me. I'm new to android, but I am an experienced programmer. I'm looking for something that will show me, preferably from scratch, how to write an android keyboard. I want to write something that looks nothing like a standard keyboard (think 8pen). I've looked at Creating an Input Method and the SoftKeyboard source. The problem with the former is that there's not enough detail - it tells me what the different classes do, but not how to edit them to get what I want. The latter is great for changing what happens when the standard keyboard is used, but it doesn't really have any information about changing the layout.
tl;dr I want to make a keyboard that is essentially just 8 gigantic buttons. Where can I go to learn how to do this?
Here is a good sample that will get you started: http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/SoftKeyboard/index.html
From there, everything else is stock Android development. In-depth documentation can be found here: http://developer.android.com/index.html
There are some examples for the soft keyboard in the sdk/samples/version. That is googles own modifiable code. Other than that you can make several keyboard skins using the listed examples or smartkey.
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I am new with Android UI and I am looking for some resources about best practices to design a UI (examples of UI elements, tutorials, etc.)
I've been looking in Google or http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials but there is nothing helpful at all.
Can anyone provide me some resources/links ?
There is actually a nice web which explains the most usable UI Design patters used by many apps already: http://www.androidpatterns.com/
If you have no experience with Android UI but you know a little Java already, maybe this is something for you:
SimpleUi ( https://github.com/bitstars/SimpleUi )
The generated UI (code below):
The complete code to create this Android UI:
I use it in real applications, not only for fast prototyping or dialogs and its well tested over the years. The concept is based on the model view control principle and for most common scenarios there are ready to use components which automatically look correct on any device. I don't say it should be used for any UI (e.g. listviews should be done by hand) but for most usecases this should be quite handy ;) Oh and feel free to fork it and improve it further if you want
UI Patterns, shown on the Twitter app, but they're common on Android in general:
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/05/twitter-for-android-closer-look-at.html
http://www.androiduipatterns.com/
Depending which pattern you want to implement, there are open source projects/samples out there, i.e. for the Quick Contact Bar, etc.
Check anddev.. normally there are nice examples of UI elements. Also some nice tutorials at mobiforge 1 and 2.