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1. Playing with graphics in Android – Part I

Introduction I read an article from the people of droidnova that was very interesting to get started with graphics in android. The first part of this series will show you, how to display an image in a normal View. Graphics in Android - Part I...

Saturday, 24 July 2010 | 4882 hits | Print |  E-mail | Report | Read more

2. Playing with graphics in Android – Part II

Introduction If you didn't see the first part, go here. Graphics in Android - Part II The second part of this series will show what you have to change to switch from using the View class to SurfaceView class. Just to remember, our last...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010 | 3849 hits | Print |  E-mail | Report | Read more

3. Playing with graphics in Android – Part III

Introduction If you didn't see the first part, go here. Even, you should see the second part here. Graphics in Android - Part III The third part of this series will add some interactivity to our little application. We will add the possibility...

Thursday, 29 July 2010 | 3075 hits | Print |  E-mail | Report | Read more

4. Playing with graphics in Android – Part IV

Introduction If you didn't see the first part, go here. If you didn't see the second part, go here. If you didn't see the third part, go here. Graphics in Android - Part IV The fourth part of the series will show you how to add more bitmaps...

Sunday, 01 August 2010 | 2627 hits | Print |  E-mail | Report | Read more

5. Playing with graphics in Android – Part V

Introduction If you're new, to see the first part, go here. Second part here. Third part here. Fourth part here. Graphics in Android - Part V The fifth part of this series will let the icons move around. What do we need, if we want to have...

Tuesday, 03 August 2010 | 2601 hits | Print |  E-mail | Report | Read more

6. Playing with graphics in Android – Part VI

Introduction If you're new, to see the first part, go here. Second part here. Third part here. Fourth part here. Fifth part here. The sixth part of this series will let you move the item you will add. As long as you touch the screen, you can...

Tuesday, 03 August 2010 | 3119 hits | Print |  E-mail | Report | Read more

7. Playing with graphics in Android – Part VII

Introduction If you're new, to see the first part, go here. Second part here. Third part here. Fourth part here. Fifth part here. Sixth part here. In our last part of this series, I will present a mini “game” based on the very famous game...

Wednesday, 04 August 2010 | 3129 hits | Print |  E-mail | Report | Read more

8. 2D Sprite Animation in Android

Introduction In order to make anything more than very simple games in 2D it’s important to be able to draw animated sprites. 2D Sprite Animation There are several ways to create animated sprites in Android, including using XML based...

Wednesday, 11 August 2010 | 8328 hits | Print |  E-mail | Report | Read more

9. Supporting the music Voice Action in your app

Introduction Google launched Voice Actions in the Google Voice Search for Android — an awesome way to search, control, and communicate on your phone faster than ever before, by using your voice. In this article you will learn how to support...

Monday, 27 September 2010 | 1973 hits | Print |  E-mail | Report | Read more

10. 2D Physics on Android (using Box2D Engine)

Introduction This post is a brief tutorial on getting started with 2D physics on Android. 2D physics can greatly enrich games by realistic behavior of objects such as polygons (boxes, rectangles, polys) and circles in a world setting. The...

Sunday, 24 October 2010 | 4800 hits | Print |  E-mail | Report | Read more

11. Android Animation Framework - Layout Transitions

Introduction This tutorial is an introduction to the built in animation frameworks that are part of the Android UI library. Without writing any animation/drawing code, you can do 2 types of animations – layout transitions that affect ViewGroups,...

Tuesday, 23 November 2010 | 22243 hits | Print |  E-mail | Report | Read more

12. Bounce Animation on Android

Introduction In this brief post I’ll go over how to implement an animation on some hard-coded text in an Android app. To achieve this effect, we will be using both a translate animation class and a bounce interpolator class, both provided by the...

Thursday, 02 December 2010 | 4142 hits | Print |  E-mail | Report | Read more