Overlapping things in Android is pretty trivial. For example, when you put multiple children in a FrameLayout, they are all shown on top of each other as per the documentation: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/FrameLayout.html
Another method is the Toast utility for showing text messages on top of everything else: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Toast.html And of course dialogs are another way to show a window of content on top of another screen: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/dialogs.html It isn't far enough along that I've put any effort into cleaning up the code/XML, but you can see the FrameLayout method being used to compose layers of a character and controls here: http://code.google.com/p/growing-phone-pet/source/browse/trunk/res/layout/show_pet.xml There's a FrameLayout there explicitly, but the PetView that is composing the different images that make up the scenery and character is also a subclass of FrameLayout. On Jun 4, 12:10 am, EwanG <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, so... question was too broad? No such examples exist? No one here > who would be interested in such a thing if it were written? :-) > > On May 30, 10:04 pm, EwanG <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am looking for an example of how to setup a screen with a > > background, an overlay image (my character), and over that a frame > > that sometimes has text, and sometimes has menu options. > > > To make myself clearer, as I suggest in the title I'm trying to create > > aVisualNovelfor Android. Something like I've done in Flash and > > using RenPy, but with mobile sensibilities (make the buttons more > > touch friendly, use the accelerator for certain inputs, etc). > > > Any good, publicly available source code I should check out? I have > > written one previous Android Program (Mars Lander which I gather is > > still floating about), but this is different enough I think I need a > > bit of help. > > > Thanks in advance! > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
