Posts with the tag: xml

• Android Pie Chart Part 1. Drawing a pie

  The most critical part of creating a custom view is how it will present itself to the screen. In this post we will he creating a pie chart view. For now we will be focusing on drawing it on the screen. Of coarse, later on we are going to be adding functionality to our custom view and state.

• Android Pie Chart Part 2. Adding state feedback to the view

  Providing state feedback in a control is important because it serves as visual feedback that a control has acknowledged your action by drawing itself on touch. It should be no different when creating custom views. In this post we will be focusing on adding state feedback on our Pie chart view

• Android Pie Chart Part 3. Implementing callback methods on custom view

  Adding on to our previous pie chart custom view example, we are now going to be implementing callback methods in this post making our component respond to different events such slice clicks, when drawing is finished etc

• Creating and using shapes in Android

  We will be creating shapes in this post for your Android application. You can create shape graphics with gradients or solid colors, strokes, padding and alter corner radius'. We will cover what are the different type of shapes you can creating in Android and how to use them. No code necessary, just XML.

• Using custom fonts in Android

  Font can play a big role in the presentation aspect of your Android applications. This post is about importing and using custom fonts within your app.

• Passing an object between activities using an Intent

  In this post we are going to be covering how to pass your custom objects through an intent between Android activities and services. It involves implementing a special interface called Parcelable that packs all your object as a parcel and allows your app to pass those parcels between its components. In this example we will be sharing playlists between activities

• Setting up Virtual Hosts on your local Windows machine

  This post is about getting started of setting up virtual host (local domains) on your local machine. Its about learning how to configure your Apache server and taking advantage of it.