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Android dev blog: 07/2010
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Blog about programming for Android. Monday, July 12, 2010. Android wheel Google code project. I've upload my wheel widget to the Google code. And time to time update it. At this moment I've implemented adapters for wheel view called ArrayWheelAdapter. There has been created demo app that contains activities for all these adapters. Demos look like in original NumericWheel control. Password and date picker activity). And ArrayWheelAdapter. Is used to set text to wheel items, like next.
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Android dev blog: Project for beginners
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Blog about programming for Android. Friday, November 12, 2010. The main problem for beginners is to choose a project to learn Android. It needs to invent a test app for each topic from Android SDK Developer's Guide. And as a result there are lots projects that in general don't have any value. It would be better to choose a one project that covers as much as possible items from Android SDK. A one of good project that helps learning Android is the Weather forecast App widget. Android wheel update: animation.
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Android dev blog: 03/2010
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Blog about programming for Android. Wednesday, March 24, 2010. Android Options menu: Internals (eng). Android applications (Activities) can have own menus next types:. Options menu - the main menu of application, is displayed when user clicks Menu button. Сontext menu - the context menu, is shown when user makes long click on some control. Android Options menu: Internals. Как и во всех платвормах, приложения (Activity) на Андроиде могут иметь свои собственные меню двух видов:. Tuesday, March 16, 2010.
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Android dev blog: 04/2010
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Blog about programming for Android. Friday, April 23, 2010. Creating backgrounds: it's easy (part 1). During developing UI applications for Android, you often have to work with images: icons, backgrounds and others. If you need icon, you (or your designer) paint it using some image editor, like PhotoShop. But what should you do when it needs to create just a simple background for your widget? Install an image editor, research that, and then create background? Here is the background drawable of App widget:.
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Android dev blog: 06/2010
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Blog about programming for Android. Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Some projects require to communicate with Web services. The JDK provides tool called wsimport. That generates classes from WSDL, and user works with them like with other Java classes and may not know that he works with a Web service. But it does not work on Android. Android SDK does not provide classes to work with Web services. So, it needs to manually work with Web services by using SOAP. There is a good library called kSOAP 2. WheelView pick...
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Android dev blog: 10/2010
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Blog about programming for Android. Saturday, October 30, 2010. Android wheel update: scrolling. I'm glad to inform that the Android wheel widget. Now scrolling feature looks more user friendly and the wheel is updated smoothly, like expected. I've also renamed methods of the scrolling listener interface to make them clear to understand. They are called now onScrollingStarted(). BTW, some people try to implement the animation. Moreover, there is an job offer. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Android dev blog: 05/2010
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Blog about programming for Android. Friday, May 28, 2010. Wheel UI contol: Scrolling. The main feature of the Wheel control is a scrolling (rotation). And I'd like to describe a simple wheel scrolling, without animation. The wheel control should be scrolled on touch motion event. So, it needs to override onTouchEvent(). Method to rotate the wheel. Each time it needs to update the wheel according to motion distance that can be calculated as the difference between the last and current Y motion position.
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Android dev blog: 11/2010
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Blog about programming for Android. Thursday, November 25, 2010. Android wheel update: animation. The wheel widget has been updated. There has been added the main feature - animation. Now it is possible to scroll the wheel automatically by using the finger fling. In the same way there is the ability to scroll the wheel programmatically by using next methods:. Void setCurrentItem(int index, boolean animated). Scrolls to specified items if animated. Void scroll(int itemsToScroll, int time). User Interface ...
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Android dev blog: Android wheel update: custom views for items
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Blog about programming for Android. Thursday, January 27, 2011. Android wheel update: custom views for items. I'm glad to inform you about updating the wheel control. There has been implemented the main feature for this widget - the ability for using custom views for wheel items, like in the ListView control. Now it is possible to show anything in the wheel, as simple text items. The label width should not be so big since items are show in the rest area. January 28, 2011 at 10:04 AM. I am unable to get t...
