We have a lot of days of research but can't find a solution for the following project. We need to convert a flux project to IOS and android native app. But as flux supports flash scripting it has easily implementing some 3d effects like shadow, emboss gradient etc. Please check the link here for seeing the swf file we have. We need to convert all this features into a native IOS and android app. We have research some area and found that most of the item we can implement except one icon here. The fourth icon have some 3d effects, shadow effects, border, emboss, contour and gradient etc. Can anybody check on this and guide us whether this can be implemented in IOS and android. I am pasting the entire url here again http://projects.zoondia.org/signfabcreator/signCreator.swf. Please check and let me know if this is possible. Let me if this is possible or not. If yes it will be helpful for me if anybody can give me a clue about implementing those in both android and ios
Very interesting! But I'm afraid you have to reimplement all this functionality by yourself. Don't be upset. There are good news for you - OpenGL ES and GLSL are extremely portable. So you can reuse 100% of your shaders. What is even better now you can share the other code too and stay native. Not long ago Intel announced the Multi-OS Engine. It enables you to develop native mobile applications for iOS and Android with Java. There are a bunch of tutorials inside installation package. One of them is especially dedicated to cross-platform OpenGL capabilities. Please check out my OpenGLBox sample.
Hi i'm working on a simple boot animation app for my first app just to learn the basics and all. I'm now done with the app and have everything i wanted basically, except previews of the boot animations. I tried creating a gallery and showing an animated gif however as you probably know android doesn't support animated gifs natively.
So my question is this what is the best way to show previews of my boot animations. I've searched but found nothing that seemed like a good way of previewing them. So how should i approach this problem? Any sample code and or links to tutorials, even just ideas or suggestions on what i should do to approach this would be a significant help
Thank you
I think AnimationDrawable can help you. You can read about it here.
I am attemping to implement drag and drop that is not just an image being dragged around the screen but has interaction between dragged and droppedon object.
in short what I'm trying to achive is:
When i drag one 'source' object and drop it on a 'target' object the 'target' object recieves information about the'source' that was dropped on it
This ( http://rakeshmenonp.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/javafx-drag-and-drop/ ) sample application describes its actions as what I'm looking for however the app doesnt work for me. I was able to build the source (it requires a few modifications, as the yahoo shopping URL no longer works) and with a few alterations get the shopping items to show up. However there is no drag/drop functionality.
Does anyone have any other samples that they could point me toward?
All of my javafx searches for drag and drop come back with apps that just deal with moving an object on the screen, or they use 'canvas' which is no longer supported
thanks, stephanie
There is no standard Drag and Drop support in JavaFX 1.3.1 in the way you want to use it. There was an alpha preview being worked on, but it did not make it into the release. As JavaFX is being totally rewritten it is hard to say what support for DnD will be in the new release.
Check this out I found this after relentless search. the below is a drag and drop example in javafx
http://0divides0.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/image-drag-and-drop/
I'm a new user to this interesting forum!
I want start developing an application for android and before starting i want learn about some android features...
The first android feature is how to correlate finger motion on the screen with java...
Are there any source code examples that show how to draw with your finger on an android screen?
Can you suggest a good place for me to download an example?
thanks
The ApiDemos that come with the SDK have an example called TouchPaint that does exactly this... it's a simple little finger drawing app. The source is actually very easy to read and it shows all of the basics.
Check out this tutorial on drawing with a canvas in Android. There are some source code examples there for you as well.
Also, the Android developer's guide and tutorials on the Google site are great. That's what I started with.
How do I create a J2ME app for cellphones with a GUI similar to the menus you see in Java games? I've tried MIDlets with Netbeans but they only show you one GUI element at a time. (textbox, choice, login, etc)
And which Java IDE would you typically design these GUIs in? Netbeans or Eclipse? and is IntelliJ IDEA usable for this aswell?
Do I have to write/get a library that draws GUI controls to screen via bitmap functions .. and keeps track of the keys pressed for focus?
Try to use LWUIT - nice UI toolkit for j2me:
https://lwuit.dev.java.net/
http://lwuit.blogspot.com/
You can also use minime: http://code.google.com/p/minime/
It's an open source GUI library for j2me. miniME works on canvas level (lowest level in j2me) to draw every control so your UI will look exactly the same whatever the handset it'll be running on. Other advantage are:
- miniME uses its own event loop to manage user controlled event (botton pressed, softbar, ..), so you Application will "behave" the same whatever the handset.
- miniME support the concept of Views and stack of view, in order to make navigation between different view/screens very easy.
Here is an example: A View is what you have on the screen at a given moment (for example the main menu screen), then to go to a sub menu, you create a new view, and by calling a simple API, you push it in the stack of Views. The previous view (the main menu) is still existing, but inactive. When the sub menu view complete his work (for example, user press back, or do a selection), you can just go back to the previous view by calling a pop api.
Your question is a bit vague to give a specific aswer, but you might want to check out LWUIT or Polish, you can develop both with either Eclipse or Netbeans.
As far as designing GUIs go, neither IDE will help from a visual perspective. J2ME UI development is all done in code, beyond creating any initial graphics in a proper graphics editor you don't get to see your output until you test.
Read up on the LCDUI package documentation which explains how the UI classes work and the differences between the 'High-level' and 'low-level' APIs.
I can't comment on which IDE to use - but I do know that to create custom UI (like the ones you see in J2ME games), you have to explicitly draw the GUI controls.
Beware that you may need to customize the GUI depending on the target phones. You have to cater for different screen sizes, key pad configurations, default theme etc. This would probably mean that you need different builds for things like different screen sizes which would drive up your Java Verified certification costs (if you need it).
You may be able to find a set of nice looking UI controls that you can buy online and use (try J2ME Polish). The easy way out of course, is to use default J2ME controls :)
Links to many j2me GUI libraries: link1, link2
I know that kuix is not bad and free - watch demo.
But i prefer to make my own gui elements - this is much more flexible (but takes some time).
As for IDE - you may want to make some kind of gui-editor tool, construct interface in it, save result to some file, and read it from your app.
It's way too cumbersome to write your own GUI, especially since there are so many available these days. If you're familiar with desktop development in VB.Net and C#, you might find "J2ME GUI" easy to use. You can download it from http://www.garcer.com/. It has a similar feel and makes it easy to learn. This is the kind of GUI that I expected to come standard with MIDP2 when I started mobile development. Would have solved a lot of issues.
If you are familiar with web stuffs then you can use KUIX (kalmeo.org/home/index) framework having xml and css supports. In place of It you can use also Polish framework (www.j2mepolish.org) it's also uses the xml in easy way rather than kalmeo kuix framework.