You know in iPhone, The four components of a typical iPhone application are
a title bar,
a navigation list,
a destination page,
and a button bar.
for The Title Bar
The title bar includes the following elements:
Back button:
Screen title:
Command button:
My question comes, although i can use UI framework tool, such as:
Phonegap,
iui,
jtquery
to develop web app, but i can't display the TitleBar effect in Android,
i can't use below code in Android:
meta content="yes" name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable"
Actually, the above can work in Apple Safari Browser, but I can't use Safari to display our Android Project, which is i don't want to see.
Does anyone know how to fulfill this effect in Android, please help me, your help will be great appreciated.
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"It's unclear if you developing a native android application or a webapp.
– alexanderblom yesterday"
sorry that i forget to mention, i want to develop a iphone-webapp-style application in Android. Since it's too difficult, i want to use iWebkit, but it seems only work in apple iPhone OS or Safari which contain the specific engine to display the beautiful layout, like below:( -_-! i am new so i can't post images here)
(source: appshopper.com)
If I'm not mistaken, if you want to custom in any way the title bar at the top of your screen, you have to do several things :
First, read this thread about titlebar customisation, as it's quite detailled.
Then, you have to add a few more things to it to match your requirements, all in the same xml file which will be your titlebar.xml:
-a button, on which listener you assign the same keyEvent as the normal back key of every android phone.
-a textview for whatever title you want to put in.
-a button for the command button, for whatever it does in Iphone (if you tell me what it does, maybe i'll be able to give more details)
Then, as I take it, you want to have it available on all your pages, without having to request titlebar customization on every activity, I would recommend you to use the same trick as I did : Define a superclass, which all your activities will extend.
then you you requestwindowfeatures in this class, and do all your customization in this one.Finnaly, You just have to call the variable of your titlebar textview in the oncreate of all your subclasses to assign the string you want on each page. If your string is generated dynamically from, lets say a file name you load from the internetv in a background thread, you will need to define a handler to the main thread as you can't update a view from another thread than the one that has created it.
Hopes that helps. If you have any question about that, feel free to ask, i'll keep an eye on your topic, because I had quite a pain to make my titlebar work properly.
good luck
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I have tried looking for an answer to this but can't seem to see anything about it.
I have a piece of software on my laptop (not written by me), that I want to customise. Some of the tasks I do are very repetitive, and could be simplified by just pressing a button on the Touch Bar that executes a number of commands.
Is it possible to write a Touch Bar app that either:
1) Customises the application's original TouchBar app (for which there is none)
2) Runs only when that application is running, and hides when the application is out of focus
Thanks
I believe BetterTouchTool can do that.
Also in the "App Specific" button you can customise when to hide system touch bar and when to show it again
I want to develop a program like button savior (which runs on top of a another app and we can press menu, back buttons on top of a running app). So user do not need to press hardware buttons to access menu, back functionalities.
I want to do the same but to do it I have to run a app on top of another app.
How can I do this?
-Lasith.
Take a look at Robotium: http://code.google.com/p/robotium/
It seems to be doing what you want to do. You can take a look at the code and figure out how to do it.
Well i think that what you are looking for is creating something like Input Method (IME), there is a good tutorial to start with on Android Docs, another thing you can do is to create an activity which contains your virtual controller, distribute that as a lib and then if someone need it they can downloads and register your component into their project, something like what AdMobs does.
Im planning on adding a instructions view to my app. Whats the best way to do it? Load a PDF into a webview or..?
Please suggest anything I might find helpful.
I also want it to look good for the user, not to plain.
You might want to consider using a UIWebView to load content that resides on your web server. The downside is that the user needs network connectivity to see the instructions and you need to know your way around at least some web development. However, you'll be able to use HTML+CSS+Javascript to create interesting content and you'll be able to change/update/correct that content without going through the hassle of releasing the app again.
I've seen a few apps put screenshots into a scrollview with a paging control. I really like that design, and there are plenty of tutorials online that explain how to do this.
You can implement instruction view different ways:
1) Just put textview and make scroll. (very simple)
2) Design the HTML instruction, and load it to the webview. (medium in look vise)
3) Create attractive design for instruction pages and implement scroll view with pages. (very attractive)
Please review above point and let me know in case of query.
Thanks.
I would use a info button (the lowercase "i" button, can be accessed by inserting "Round Rect Button" and changing type to one of the "Info" buttons or in code you could init a button with type: "UIButtonTypeInfoDark" or "UIButtonTypeInfoLight") on your main or first view controller. Inside that view you could put an UITextView with editing OFF and that would contain all your instructions that the user could scroll through and get to quickly, easily, and intuitively
I have a application which is a universal application. On iPhone, it's a Tab Bar application and on iPad its a Split View app. For settings, I really wanted to include the three most important settings in my application, and then launch the Settings Application on demand for minor settings (but Apple screwed us there). So I'm trying to integrate InAppSettingsKit.
Because the application is a universal binary, InAppSettingsKit must be installed in Shared/. Otherwise I will get problems with duplicate symbols (or I have to duplicate and rename everything with *_iPhone and *_iPad).
I'm trying to cut-in InAppSettingsKit on the iPhone. Because its a tab view, there is no NavigationController as IASK expects (so a tap does nothing except highlight the row cell). So the library will need some modifications. In addition, when I tested a purely iPad cut-in, IASK would SIGABRT because it expected a tool bar (IIRC).
The README only has a link to http://www.inappsettingskit.com, which looks like a lot of programmer related marketing. There are no Universal App samples, and the two samples provided are very basic (not reflecting the needs of a Tab Bar/Split View app). In addition, I have not found a place to ask questions (github does not appear to have a bulletin board system [1]) and there does not appear to be contact information.
Has anyone successfully used InAppSettingsKit in a Universal App? If so, was sharing the best method, or was duplicating files and renaming the best method. Was it worth the effort to debug and modify someone else's work in a vacuum? If someone have a better recommendation, I would love to hear it.
[1] https://github.com/futuretap/InAppSettingsKit
First of all, there's an "Issues" area on the GitHub page where you can ask question, too. We don't give individual advice because we wanna avoid duplicate work for a voluntary project.
I don't see why you should need to modify InAppSettingsKit at all depending on whether it's used in a tab bar or split view controller.
Take a look at the sample project where we integrate IASK into a tab bar, a navigation controller and a modal view controller.
Other than that, I'm afraid, I don't have specific advice how to integrate it into a Universal binary.
Is there some sample code, or an easy way, to implement an application with as its first view something like Springboard?
What I am looking for is just a view with basic icons which after a tab on an icon tells the view-controller to push the view associated with the selected icon.
This in itself is not that difficult off-course (just putting images on a view), but is there an easy way to implement all the extra functionality as well (as e.g. moving the icons around (start 'vibrating' when when you push hold them), multiple pages etc.). The Facebook App seems to have this. It is probably not worth my while to write it myself, but it would be nice if there is something 'out of the box' to give the App a bit more of an iPhone feel.
Thanks in advance!
Facebook uses the Three20 library for its UI. The specific view used for the SpringBoard-like interface is known as TTLauncherView.
This is not an endorsement (I have yet to really check this out, and I may be too entrenched in using Three20 at this point to even bother), but here is another project that implements the springboard functionality: myLauncher on Github
You can use UICollectionView to create this
Look at this example
https://github.com/tularovbeslan/Springboard