Just wondered if people have any ideas on how to develop an app that makes a boot animation from a video.
The main thing that need to be done is extracting PNG files. That's the biggest hurdle as I don't know of any app that an do that.
Then it needs to resize them, and name them correctly
And finally put them in the right folders and create a description file....
To be honest I'm not even sure if this is possible, I'd be happy if it could just extract the frames and edit them.
Just thought I'd ask for some input on here
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Hi all. Sorry if this has been asked but I have not been able to find anything.
I was wondering if it is possible to add folders or group apps in the big app list?
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Not that I know of. And one of the main things I'm missing from Android. Hopefully in 2.3... In the meantime you can create labels and folders based on them using for example Folder Organizer, but only on the launcher (desktop) screens. Better then nothing I guess.
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yeah I got the launcher folders set up. Just the main app list is just all over the place. Would be good to organise it better.
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Agreed, ive been looking for something to do this with..
I'm really happy and impressed with Android and DHD, but in this field Android is so behind, that even apple with its simple folders is better (and the more apps you've got, the more akward and confusing it gets. Still hoping it's not Androids limitation - otherwise the only option would be a hack, or a "work around".
Ps. The other great addition would be a native, and launcher independent, "recent tab" ( like i.e "Go Launcher"). And honestly for a company who's mostly known as search engine and tag-aware ads system company - then why such a poor tagging implementation in Android (same goes for Android Market - let developers add tags to their software and based on that, automatically create folders). Just limit tags to specific number (3? first one being category type and based on that folder name - limited list), otherwise some devs in order to promote their soft will start adding tens of tags, creating even more confusion.
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I'm pretty shure we will soon see some improvement on this part of android
Its something wich is really needed! The apps like folder Organizer takes CPU and ram! not so fun. but coustmization of the folders is nice.
Hey everyone! Recently migrated phones from a Touch Pro 2 to this (like a lot of you probably did) and have spent the last couple days trying to get used to the Android OS. So far I've managed to pretty much set up everything how I want and I've rooted, over clocked, and flashed a custom rom onto it (Virtuous v1.0.2).
Coming over from Windows Mobile though, one gripe I am having is being able to rename the apps in the app draw. Since I only have about 6 apps on the homescreen, I'm aware it is possible to rename them using programs such as bettercut or super app manager, but unfortunately I've not yet found a way to rename the apps in the app draw. I like things to be neat and labelled nicely which not only look better, but makes it easier to find things.
Is this any way possible to do once you're rooted up? Ideally I don't want to turn off the Sense UI interface and switch to something else because I quite like the Sense widgets. It's baffling why this option of renaming applications is not possible/much simpler.
Thanks in advanced for any help
Not looking good is it.. Lol
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Not sure if what you want is possible...
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Of course its possible. Android is open source. Take the source for the launcher, make changes necessary to rename applications, compile, install.
Hint: Some other launchers that you may be able to download and install, even on a NON-ROOTED phone, may already have this ability.
Don't know if there is an easy way to do this in the stock Sense launcher.
Only way I know if you only want to do this to a few apps, and have the APK for those apps: There is an XDA user made app called APK Edit, which allows you to change the icon and name of the app. Just use this to edit the APK, then install the APK.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=890199
Hi,
A year ago I developed an app as part of a group project at uni. Due to the limitations set by the project rules the app isn't properly designed for Android. The app is a tour guide, in 2 parts. The guide itself is an XML file which has all the content on it. The other part is the player, which is an Android app. The player parses the XML and forms Java Classes to store the data and then play it. The content is saved in the form of Slides in a Slideshow (part of the requirements of the project, not our choice). So for instance 1 slide will be the main menu, then clicking a button will take you to another slide which will be a sub menu and so on.
Now a year later I've come to update this app, originally I was just intending to change the AbsoluteLayouts we used to Relative/Linear/List/whatever works best for that particular slide and also to put the layouts into XML rather keep them in the Java. However I was wondering what would be the best Android practice for an app such as this?
The advantage of using XML for the guide is that say if we had a guide to a different city we could just upload that new XML to a server (the player can download remotely) and then download it to get a new tour guide. However would it be best for me to strip away all of this and start afresh, with Android in mind? I.E. by removing the need to parse an XML file at the start and just have a new app for each city.
I've been thinking about a complete overhaul as changing AbsoluteLayout will be a pain. At the moment each component is given X and Y coordinates in the main XML file, so changing that to relative commands, changing the parser to read that will be hard. Also it's best practice to store the layouts in R.layout but it would be hard to convert the layout from the main Tour Guide XML to a layout XML... if that makes sense :/
If I were to remove the main XML, how would I handle each menu or content page? Would they be given their own activity?
Sorry for the long post, I just want to be clear on what the best way to update this app would be and am just learning how to properly design Android apps. I really appreciate any advice and for taking the time to read this post!
If I've put this in the wrong forum then let me know and I'll move it
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check out
http://www.appcelerator.com/
i created my first app using it
and its on the market with around 2k downloads
it has its issues and bugs but it was my first real coding experience.
its worth checking out
and its free
Ok.. I use the Google+ app on my phone. But because it its not a web app, if I ever am on this network and I see some image that someone has posted which I like, many times I would love to be able to save to my phone. But because this an app, and not built for a browser, I can't just long-press and save it.
And obviously google has not as of yet built this functionality into this app in any other way.
BUT....after much poking and prodding in and to the google+ app, I notice that when you are viewing an image, you CAN set it as your desktop wallpaper!
But, once I set it as my wallpaper, I cannot find it! Using root explorer, I have searched for every .jpg, jpeg, .png, and .bmp and no dice. I have tried opening up quickpic (the free market app), and hit ”display hidden images” (which hides icons and other stuff you wouldn't want to see anyway), and look through EVERYTHING that is revealed...but still I cannot find it. Its on my desktop as the wallpaper, so it must be on the phone.
It is driving me crazy. Does anyone have any clue where a file like this might be stored? I imagine a wallpaper image could be anywhere in the sys partition or the sdcard, but it wouldn't need to be convertthan those above extensions I search on, right? So WTF? Where could it be?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Good Afternoon,
I am in need of some support or help if possible please,
i am trying to create an application using the new android studio(this is my 1st time trying to make an app)
i have managed to get my logo as the app icon
got a contact icon /name/tel number and the app to load on my nexus 4 ok and i can change the details on the app from my phone,
i am now truly stuck. i require photo albums to be in the app with tabs,
the app is for my small business
i ideally need 2 tabs at the bottom (about us/photos)
the photo tab to load all the albums of photos i need to be viewed by people 20 albums about 200 photos in total.
i have tried and tried to follow guides but they seem to be all for eclipse and eclipse wont let me create a new app at all(all updated just wont show the next button after package name ect...
this is the only app i need to make, i would love to try and make myself but this is proving either to hard for myself or im missing something very basic....
are there devs on here that create small apps like this at a cost ?
are there any better tutorials for the new studio builder?
any feedback welcome.
regards
XDA is not a place where you can hire devs as far as photo album are concerned I recently worked with one They're quite simple to build but rendering Images on them is a pain but once you get the algorithm right it's all good take a look at a very scratch version of what I made If its something you'd want I can help you with it
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