I just developed an app on Android Studio and I used normal default grey button of kitkat. But some time later I made a copy of that app (to make another project) and now in this copied app, new buttons as well as those old buttons are shown with some different style. I am confused as to where I got that new style. It looks cool but I don't want to lose it as automatically as I got it.
I am attaching an image, this will show the changes in design.
Either you are using Theme.Material or Theme.AppCompat, or something that inherits from those (e.g., Theme.AppCompat.Light), as the basis for your app's theme. Or, you have no theme, and you are running on an Android 5.0+ device, and so you get Theme.Material by default.
Both Theme.Material and Theme.AppCompat (the latter in conjunction with AppCompatActivity and the rest of the appcompat-v7 library) aim to implement the Material Design aesthetic, and Material Design says that button captions are in all caps.
add this line in style
<item name="android:textAllCaps">false</item>
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I have been practising my skills with android (Kotlin), and I am having issues with styling the UI, with most solutions here not working. It feels like there's some default style overriding what I am trying to achieve because often than not the changes are visible in the layout creator GUI in android studio but not in the app itself. I even noticed the apps base dark or light theme setting affects the Ui looks which should not be the case for me.
The greatest challenge I have had is trying to change the app theme with both methods not working or working only to a certain degree which often leaves things quite off:
toggling using this AppCompatDelegate.setDefaultNightMode(MODE_NIGHT_YES)
or explicitly changing the theme using setTheme(R.style.Theme_Dark)
Is there something I am not considering or I do not know? I am happy to provide any more information for better context. Thanks in advance!
So I have done a little more reading and seen some of the underlining issues I was experiencing. I'll be updating this are I learn more.
I have learned of a feature called Force Dark introduced in Android 10 which automatically intelligently inverts the colours of the screen ignoring elements such as images and icons vectors in order to create a dark theme before the view is rendered.
Adding this line in more Theme xml file prevented this giving me more freedom.
<item name="android:forceDarkAllowed" tools:targetApi="q">false</item>
(27-6-2022)
I am a student and is beginner to Android app development. Also, I specifically aim for a great UI/UX that will contribute a lot in my project.
Does anyone know how to implement this iOS shadow style for Android app (preferably java)? Like the shadow is a blurred version of the ImageView (or any other view). A third-party library could help as well.
Image reference:
Apple Music now playing screen
To set the default (resting) elevation of a view, use the android:elevation attribute in the XML layout. To set the elevation of a view in the code of an activity, use the View.setElevation() method.
Here is the material design documentation for the functionality
https://developer.android.com/training/material/shadows-clipping
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 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.
I've recently setup eclipse and the android SDK on a new computer but I fear something has gone wrong when setting it up.
When I create a new android project with a blank activity two files I've never seen before appear:
fragment_main.xml
and
appcompat_v7_2
What are they and do I need to worry about them?
appcompat-v7 :
As stated in Android's Support Library Overview, it is considered good practice to include the support library by default because of the large diversity of devices and the fragmentation that exists between the different versions of Android (and thus, of the provided APIs)
Reference : Why does Eclipse automatically add appcompat v7 library support whenever I create a new project?
Fragment_main :
fragment_main.xml is the Layout for the fragment.
Refer this : Building a Dynamic UI with Fragments
hope this helps
The first, let read code in MainActivity!
You can see fragment_main is layout of one fragment in it.
when application running, fragment will be added to layout and show this layout.
Let read more about here for understanding about fragment. It is very important if you want to make android app.