We have come across this issue many times during programming to get a selected item in your combobox. ANDROID has built in functions to get the selected item from a spinner. Take a look at the snippet. Here my_spinner id the spinner variable and using getSelectedItem() which will return an object and by using toString()… Read More »
Progress bars are our basic needs when we want to show something for a long time or some progress takes a long time and we want to show it’s progress. Keeping that in mind ANDROID also has built in progress views. There are basically two types of progress views in ANDROID. ProgressDialog.STYLE_SPINNER and ProgressDialog.STYLE_HORIZONTAL Take… Read More »
MediaPlayer class can be used to play Audio in ANDROID. See how to do this.
This code helps you to check whether the location service is available on your ANDROID Phone or not. Copy this code and paste to your file. Happy coding…..
This code helps you to customize the spinner in ANDROID. For that you have to create an XML file inside your layout folder as shown below and name it spinner.xml. You can give all properties that are available for TextView inside this which is going to be then applied for your spinner. Now I will… Read More »
This code helps yoy to set an item in your combobox(spinner) in ANDROID. Here my_spinner is the combobox which we call as spinner in ANDROID. Declare it in your XML file and link to it by using the following code…. my_spinner= (Spinner)findViewById(R.id.my_spinner); After that in your code set an item Listener for the spinner using… Read More »
Following example shows how to set a Bitmap as wallpaper in ANDROID. After running this code your wallpaper on the ANDROID phone will change. Make sure that you have an image named ‘my_wallpaper’ in your drawable folder. And You have to set this permission in the Manifest.
Below is a straight forward example of how to deal with SQLite database in ANDROID. Go ahead and copy and paste the following code to your java file. The example has one database and performs functions like insert delete and listing of values in a textView. In the XML file set up a TableLayout with… Read More »
In Cocos2D in iPhone often you may be using spritesheets which amy cause memory leaks because they are unused textures in memory even when you go from one scene to other. So make sure to remove all those unwanted textures from memory to save memory. Copy this following code to dealloc function in your class… Read More »
The following example shows how to draw a rectangle using the Paint Class in ANDROID. Just copy and paste the following code to your file and you are done.
With the following code you can load images in your drawable folder dynamically by giving the filename as a String. For that you have to use getResources().getIdentifier which has parameters as the “path”,”drawable” and the “package name”. This returns a unique resource ID which can be used to set the image for a ImageView using… Read More »
In ANDROID all resource has a unique resource ID which we get by passing the song name to the function below playSong(). The function getAllResourceIDs() will convert this String which is the name of the song to the unique resource ID which can then be used to play the song. setOnCompletionListener() will be executed when… Read More »
You cal also animate CCMenu like other sprites to have some effect on your Menu. You can also place spritesheets in each MenuItem. -(void) setUpMenu { CCSprite *Home1 = [CCSprite spriteWithFile:@”Home1.png”]; CCSprite *Home2 = [CCSprite spriteWithFile:@”Home1.png”]; Home2.opacity = 100; CCSprite *Levels1 = [CCSprite spriteWithFile:@”levels2.png”]; CCSprite *Levels2 = [CCSprite spriteWithFile:@”levels2.png”]; Levels2.opacity = 100; CCSprite *Refresh1 =… Read More »
Follow these steps…. Select your particle system from the Particle Designer . The go to file-> save as “file.plist” Copy file.plist to your resources folder. Copy the following code to your Xcode.
Simply copy and paste the following code to see how to use the RatingBar in ANDROID.
Please checkout the “LogCat” for the output. If you don’t know about Logcat In Eclipse “Go to Window->showView and search for Logcat”.
Please checkout the “LogCat” for the output. If you don’t know about Logcat In Eclipse “Go to Window->showView and search for Logcat”.
Please checkout the “LogCat” for the output. If you don’t know about Logcat In Eclipse “Go to Window->showView and search for Logcat”.
The following java code helps you to show a webpage in ANDROID and enable javascript.
For working on the localhost use 10.0.2.2 and for remote use the IP or domain name of the server. The following code does this.
This is the main Java file that extends activity. Create a file named ScreenON_OFF_ACTIVITY.java and place the below code in it. This is the class that extends the Broadcast receiver class that receives the notifications. create a java file and name it ScreenReceiver.java and place the following code in it. This the class that updates… Read More »
You often may need scrolling backgrounds in your game or any other application. The following code helps you to add continuous backgrounds. Each sprite is added to the right of the current sprite which make them continuos. //Add more stripes, flip them, and position them next to their neighbour stripe. for (int i = 0;… Read More »
//Dynamically change the sprite image…… //my_sprite is a CCSprite already initialized with spriteWithFile. [[CCTextureCache sharedTextureCache] removeTexture:[self.my_sprite texture]; CCTexture2D *tex = [[CCTextureCache sharedTextureCache] addImage:@”new_image.jpg”]; [my_sprite setTexture:tex];
The CCRibbon class, together with touch input, can be used to create the line-drawing effects of popular games. Note: you can’t remove individual points from a CCRibbon. You can only remove the whole CCRibbon by removing it as child from its parent.
CCBitmapFontAtlas faster than CCLabel. Labels that update fast at the expense of more memory usage, like any other CCSprite,is the specialty of the CCBitmapFontAtlas class //Usage… CCBitmapFontAtlas scoreLabel = [CCBitmapFontAtlas bitmapFontAtlasWithString:@”0″ fntFile:@”bitmapfont.fnt”];