I apologise if this is the wrong place to ask this question, I did my best to make sure it has not been asked before and thorougly searched the web for any similar answer.
So here goes: I am having a very hard time finding any sort of reference, or better yet a tutorial on how to create a wallpaper pack for android.
To elaborate, I do not mean a live wallpaper of any kind. Just a pack of selected wallpapers packaged into an applications for distribution through the market. Ideally wih its own selection interface.
There are precedents on the market but for the life of me I cannot find any information.
Any ideas, opinions or suggestions? Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way?
Many thanks for the help!
Here is the GitHub repository for the wallpaper pack that CyanogenMod has. It should be pretty simple to base yours off of this.
https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_packages_apps_CMWallpapers
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This one is fairly quick, but I am hopeful someone might be able to point me in the right direction.
I recently purchased an LG Wing and am trying to find some good resources that explain how exactly to develop an extended application that uses both screens at the same time.
So far I havent been able to find any decent resources, and honestly think I may be using all the wrong terminology.
If anyone has had a similar experience and could possibly share the content that they found helpful to get into this kind of mobile development it would be much appreciated!
Thank you!
I just decided today that I wanted to make a gallery app for my phone, pretty much just combine several features I like from different apps I've tried into one, perfect app, for me. The problem however is that although I know some java, took Programming 1 & 2 and currently taking AP Computer Science in high school, I have no idea where to begin. I roughly know and even less so understand the layout of Android Studio, but I can get by. I need help finding useful resources online to help me learn or even someone who is able to answer the probably many questions I have. I've watched some youtube videos and tried reading some tutorials but I haven't found anything that clears things up for me. I will ask a few questions now:
1.) I have no idea where to start or what to use to get the app to show images from device storage and micro sd card in a grid view. I have read things about using the RecyclerView to not use as much resources, and also something about Glide for better performance(I think thats what both those do, if I understand correctly) but I have no idea what to do with either or even how to use either.
2.) In the xml design portion I'm not good at navigating everything and understanding what I should use for what. I can make a good design in photoshop or other programs but I'm not sure how to actually take that vision and translate it into working pieces.
3.) Pretty much I just need help and will probably think of more questions as someone tries to answer those.
Thanks!
There are lots of good, free tutorials on the net. For example on the official Android Developer site: https://developer.android.com/training/index.html
- where you can find a lot of useful example code snippets, but there are other sites also - https://www.tutorialspoint.com/android/index.htm . It starts with the very basics and has lots of examples too.
Other non-free tutorials can be found at
udacity.com - Android Developer Nanodegree by Google
udemy.com
To reach data from your device storage or from your micro SD card you have to understand the principle working of content providers.
I do not recommend Recycle View, when you are a beginner, because it is a more complex thing than a List View (or Grid View). Start with these and then upgrade.
Glide is cool thing, because it saves you from a lot of useless coding and easy to use. On their GitHub page you find detailed instructions how to import it to your project - I recommend Gradle - and how to use it.
In my point of view, start reading one of the free sites patiently and than you are going to get answer for your questions, but it is very important to understand the basics.
I hope I helped! Sorry for my bad English, I used it a long time ago.
I have been developing Android apps, but never did a live wallpaper. I have seen one in the market, and just confused how to do a live wallpaper like the
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.anifree.anipet.aquarium
How do i do? Is it that i need to learn Animations in Android? Or is there anything else. Would love if you can give me a brief overview of how to develop things as in the app i gave!
Thanks
Nithin
Here is a tutorial on how to make live wallpapers. Its not too difficult, depending on what you want to do.
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/140223/Create-a-live-aquarium-wallpaper-in-Android.aspx
cross-posted here: http://www.rajeeshcv.com/2010/12/create-a-live-aquarium-wallpaper-in-android/
Ok so I am starting off with android development and I have found a bunch of useful tutorials so I am set there. What I am looking for is a resource that provides homework style problems to do and has the answers downloadable so I can check my solution against the "official" solution.
So for example instead of the notepad tutorial it would be: "Build an application that you can create, edit, delete notes, ...etc.". Ideally the "official" solution would have some explanation as to why they built it the way they did. (so a tutorial at the tail end)
Anyone know of any resources that provide their tutorials in this format?
Thanks.
Okay, here's one: build me an app that allows the user to make, modify, and store notes. The 'official' answer is the Notepad app in the 9th level of the api. (Note that this is different from the notepad tutorial).
The point is that asking questions is easy, the harder part is actually making a program that does the job. And #Roflecoptr is right, at this level it can be implemented very differently. But if you want that mindset, you can write your own 'homework' easily. Just think up a few things you want that are simple, build it, does it do what you want well? Then you pass.
Despite for very trivial problems I dont think this is possible, because there are way to much possible implementation possibilites so that you can't compare your solution to the "official" solution.
But why do you need something like that? If you want to learn to program on Android, you can just follow some tutorials you've already found and then modify them, adapt them to your needs. When you get more used to the development of Android apps you can just get some ideas on tutorials/android development sites and then implement your own solution. There is plenty of help available here on SO and on other development sites, which will help you if you really get stuck.
You could always go to the Android Samples page, and without looking at their implementations, do your own and compare. The samples page is here:
http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/index.html
I want to create language pack for android. How can I do this. If anyone knows how or where to find info about this topic please share your knowledge. I'd appreciate any pointers to the right direction.
Perhaps start by looking at the Locales in Android?
Edit
Apparently it's not possible to make languages packs for Android without contributing to the Android Open Source Project. It seems a few people have the same question as you. If you're interested in a specific Android app, that's dependent on the flexibility of the app itself. Sorry for the original, rather lacking, answer.