I want to create some thing like drawer menu that open from bottom of screen.
some thing like blow image. Also I want to know is that any special name?
You can use BottomSheet library. It works on Android 2.1+
https://github.com/soarcn/BottomSheet
It's called a SlidingDrawer. It was on the SDK but got deprecated a while back.
That said, this thrid-party library should do the job just as good. I've used it in multiple projects.
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So here's the problem, when I create a new project using Basic Activity template it generates two fragments and every page or tutorial I've seen it's not generated. Is it something normal? How to I to avoid Android Studio creating this two fragments?
That started in version 3.6 of Android Studio. I believe they're trying to promote their Navigation Component, where the principle is to use one single Activity (host) and many Fragments (for all the other screens of the app).
As the other answers have suggested, you can either select "Empty Activity" instead or delete these fragments after they're created.
My suggestion would be to try and learn about the new Navigation Component, as it might become the new Standard in the near future.
I honestly don't know why Android Studio does that but if you want just one activity you can start with "Empty Activity" Or just "Add No Activity" option. And then add an activity with the App->New->Activity->Empty Activity.
I am trying to figure out how can I modify the icons and interchange the order that appear in android auto navigation activity.
So far I have found this code needs to be modified directly in AOSP. The file that I think that is drawing this is CarNavigationBarController.java
I have not been able to figure out the resource that I need to modify the icons and their order.
Thank you in advance.
You can't.
This bar is generated by Google's Android Auto application and it's proprietary.
The Android Auto playback menu is standard, and the third party apps are not allowed to change the interface
You can only customize the color of the button, to distinguish your brand for some degree. Otherwise, the experience should be consistent and predictable to minimize the drivers distraction.
I want to make an Android application that controls an Raspberry Pi (singleboard computer).
To do that, I want to create a control page like the one below:
As you can see, there are section headers, listview items with a switch, listview-items with a checkbox and listview-items with only text and listview-items that go to a new activity(of fragment).
I want to create the same thing for my android application. But I want to know what the best way is to create a page like this. I have already tried a listview with a CustomListAdapter, but the problem is that ALL my listview-items have a switch or ALL my listview-items have a checkbox, and so on.
So is it better to create a page like this in an other way? (build it mostly in the layout file, item for item?).
The Android API includes an easy way to handle this. You need to create a PreferenceActivity. The Android API documentation provides a full, thorough explanation with examples. You can find that here
I know that Android's Youtube app is not open source, but I pulled apart the apk with apktool and found that they have a class, YoutubeListView used frequently in their app. Is there already an open source implementation of the Youtube Player Activity's title/ fling view/ layout? I know of similar views like Joao Machete's FlingAndScrollViewer, but I need it to be rigge to a title menu and work as smoothly as that on the Youtube app. If there is no open source implementation, either how hard would it be to convince Google to release just that component's source, or to implement it myself?
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Btw, the footer in this layout is what I am talking about. It has titles like Info & Related videos that can be clicked and it scrolls to them, and it can be scrolled left and right.
I've come to the conclusion that there is no such view. It would be best to make my own custom layout.
Does anyone know of any tools (besides DroidDraw) that can help me create the basics of my projects a bit quicker? I'm looking for something that will allow me to very quickly generate the XML for my layouts so I don't have to sit there typing like a robot for so long.
Thanks!
However the drag and drop layout design method is not recommended for Android Applications UI designers but there is an Open Source project on Google Code: android-ui-utils , in which you might find something intersiting.
It uses a Firefox addon Pencil to draw and design android layouts and also uses an online "Android Assets Studio" where you can design your custom Icons like:
Launcher icons
List item icons
Menu Icons
Notification icons
You can give up a try here:
http://code.google.com/p/android-ui-utils/
DroidDraw is OK, but the reality is that if you are going to write for Android you are going to want to learn how to write XML layouts from scratch. I remember that XML layouts seemed bizarre when I first started working with the Android SDK, but eventually it starts to make sense.
I read a blog post from a member of the Android team at Google explaining why XML layouts are better than GUI-based layout systems (such as the one included with the iPhone SDK). I can't find the link right now, but basically XML allows for layouts that gracefully scale across devices of radically different sizes and purposes where a GUI-based layout designer often has to be tweaked at best and redone at worst for devices of different sizes.
The official Android Plugin for Eclipse comes with a GUI Editor which supports drag'n'drop of GUI Elements. Not necessarily better than DroidDraw, but maybe you didn't know yet: http://developer.android.com/sdk/eclipse-adt.html