I'm excited to roll out my first codename one app but I'm running into issues with the look of the program. On Netbeans my images great and my label backgrounds are appropriate. However, on my tablet, images have a background and my labels look odd.
The tablet image is from a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3.
Any idea how to fix this?
(Since SO won't allow me to post images, here is a link to the screenshots: http://www.pricepasta.com/random/Uglypng.jpg)
Use the Android build argument android.asyncPaint=true to use the newer rendering pipeline.
You would also need to test in the Android simulator to see the misalignment on the simulator as well. I'm assuming this is triggered by misuse of the layout managers.
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We have an Android application which works well on Android 4.1+ till Android 7.
Only in Android 5.0 and 5.1 we experience a difficult problem (on all devices + emulators).
The icons we use in our application turn completely black after hiding the software keyboard (when you are finished typing something in a textbox).
They stay black, even after restarting the application.
But after restarting the device (or closing the application by taskmanager), the icons are back normal (till you hide the keyboard again).
I don't find anything unusual in the code or icons and since it works in Android 4,6,7 it seems related to just Android 5.
Does someone has some idea at what the cause could be?
Disabling hardware-acceleration didn't have any effect.
This problem mainly occurs if you are using some other format of images like jpeg , use only png images also you might want to have a look at this answer
I work on a big project with codenameone(i can't attach my codes because it's really big). I get android app and it's works on android devices. But recently i get ios build for this project and it's not working on ios device(just showing a white page instead of map).
My project is a map-framework that render tiles and ... on graphics(i used graphics class for drawing, transforming, writing text and more).
I used input stream for working with file because of File not supported.
I need a solution to how debug and find my problem about ios build(why tiles doesn't showed).
In fact i don'n know anything about ios and objective-c.
Thanks in advance.
Most of the logging functionality that allows inspecting issues is for pro developers (you can try the trial) its discussed in this video (mostly focused on crashes): http://www.codenameone.com/how-do-i---use-crash-protection-get-device-logs.html
From your description I would guess you created a really large mutable image (larger than screen bounds) and are drawing onto that. This would be both slow on iOS (and on newer Android devices) and might actually produce that result if the image exceeds the maximum texture size of the device.
If that is not the case you would need to explain what you are doing more precisely.
I have an application in my android tablet. The user interface of that application is really bad. I want to make another level -if this word is correct- and use the same application. I won't add new operations, functions. I just want to make the buttons, labels and texts look better.
Is it possible to re-design the UI, or make a layer between the user and application?
Thank you very much.
EDIT: I don't have the source code, unfortunately.
Use dip in your xml views instead of px.
To make it look better design it for different screens . Make folders for layouts like
1.layout-small( for phones like samsung galaxy mini)
2.layout-medium(for phones like samsung galaxy note)
3.layout-large(7-10 inch tablets)
4.layout-xlarge(10+ inch devices)
Make sure that file names and views ids should be same to avoid null pointer exceptions in run time . Just play with views attributes and sizes in xml files.
For further details see this
Realistically, It would be tough to changes the UI without sourcecode, as you would not know hows these UI controls will work and look. In simple way you can change the orientation of activities as per need such as portrait to landscape in menifest file, add images for different resolution and adjust padding and all. But this wont be good solution.
check this link, would help you bit Android App for Tablet and Phone
You need to check this out first and foremost:
http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html
Android is designed to be used on multiple devices. It allows you define different layouts (UI's) for devices of different sizes and screen resolutions.
You can use stuff like Fragments as well to divide your apps functionality into smaller pieces and display only those parts which suit the current device.
People have been experiemcing a problem with my android app. Apperently what is happening is on phones such as the Droid x and cliq cupcake have been experiencing the main menu not showing the letters on the buttons and in some occasions it will cause a force close in certain sections. My buttons do have picture backgrounds if that could be the cause and the app is set for version 1.6. Not sure if either has anything to do with it. If anyone has experienced it or has any ideas I would appreciate some help. Thanks alot
It should work on every phone if you read this post carefully
http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html
In best practices part recommended list is here.
Use wrap_content, fill_parent, or the dp unit (instead of px), when specifying dimensions in an XML layout file
Do not use AbsoluteLayout
Do not use hard coded pixel values in your code
Use density and/or resolution specific resources
Every android developer should read that post to support for multiple screens.
Hope this helps
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