You know if you set android :windowBackground to a drawable and set your Layout container to either a background color or drawable that you get a nice very brief splash right? How could you use this? As you know most of us recommend that use an activity as a dialog screen. You could use it [...]
Archive for March, 2010
This month this blog reaches 10,000 views largely due to the interest and views of the Android Development Knols. Thanks for all the views and thanks to all the comments.
If you want ot change the tabs look ot something like this: Thank read the Advance Tabs Knol.
That is a fully working custom set-up with text color changes, etc. Basically, I used the concept that since its a view group(TabWidget) I can manipulate the child elements. If it was just a plain view than you still can grab the object and manipulate. Why is this important? With iPhone you are limited to [...]
Left to fix is the drawable, fix my image states. and the text colors as the text label is taking the default text colors. I had to switch co around and replace the bottom strip first and than replace the tab indicator:
I was able to remove the bottom strip off the tab bar: Which means I should be able to also modify the dividers. The Advance Tab tutorial should be up in my Android Development Knols collection tonight.
Its working. The solution is imperfect in that it will break when the API changes. The Knol tutorial should be up sometime today. in the Android U Design category. The main thing was to grab the drawables from he TAbWidget.
I still have to fix some drawable selectors but its working: Okay, now for the secret sauce: That sits in my onCreate method. the only bad things is it will break when the APi changes.
I guess I should speak up about this. okay some background. While both Apple’s iPhone OS and Google/OHA’s Android OS are relatively new platforms(iPhone at almost 4 years and Android at 3), Android for application developers is still somewhat undocumented due to the Android team being somewhat smaller and having more stakeholders to hand-hold. Thus, [...]
