Excellent, SurfaceView, just learned something new. Thanks, I'll have a look.
On Jan 16, 10:48 pm, Kristopher Micinski <krismicin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nonsense, you can also have something like a surfaceview that displays > the picture, and also does dynamic drawing of the cute indicator > button :-) > > kris > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Kookamonga <site...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > > Yup, I thought of that... This is why I initially suggested it was > > just an ImageView that was listening for gestures to move between > > successive ImageViews. That would work. But the only way I can think > > of getting the nice page indicator at the bottom would be to hardcode > > it as part of the image in the ImageView. And obviously, this is less > > than desirable: adding a page to the tutorial means re-doing every > > page to update the page indicator, etc. I thought maybe there was > > something I hadn't come across in my Googling for the answer. > > > On Jan 16, 10:30 pm, Kristopher Micinski <krismicin...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> Honestly, they might just be screenshots arranged in a custom view > >> that does that cute scrolling thing... > > >> kris > > >> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Kookamonga <site...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > >> > Yes, I will try and find an example and look at the source. > > >> > In the meantime, just so we're clear, I've uploaded images for the > >> > first two pages of the tutorial: > > >> >http://tinypic.com/r/eh19n8/5 > >> >http://tinypic.com/r/35m2v0k/5 > > >> > Nice, eh? > > >> > On Jan 16, 10:02 pm, Kristopher Micinski <krismicin...@gmail.com> > >> > wrote: > >> >> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Kookamonga <site...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > >> >> > OK, thanks Kris. I was looking to find out whether there was a special > >> >> > view that did this sort of thing. Appears not to be the case. And > >> >> > yeah, I can figure out other ways to get the same effect. > > >> >> Not to say that it's not *possible* to write a fancy view that embeds > >> >> other views and adds some niceties to do demo stuff, I'm sure it's > >> >> possible to write such a view, it's just not out there on the Android > >> >> platform. But ultimately this might be what a few of those apps use. > >> >> Perhaps you can find an example app, then check out it's source? > > >> >> kris > > >> > -- > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> > Groups "Android Developers" group. > >> > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > >> > For more options, visit this group at > >> >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
