Its all ways digusting me when using Android grid view because the cols are not free flowing even though we set the cols to expand and the solution is we need to set the col width dynamically by calculating with the screen width to the number of cols drawn. This is what we are going …
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Again this is in continuation with the RSS Reader Part 2 in the RSS Reader Series. In this tutorial we will introduce the ‘ActionBar’ and have a refresh item which refreshes the List with a rotating animation effect, a share action bar item in the description view to share the the news. Here’s the video …
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Using the cool ‘inner shadow’ we can achieve the beautiful text layouts and shapes. This tutorial focuses on how to use the inner shadows in a better way to achieve the nice cut through effect. Here is sample which we are creating in this tutorial: : While choosing the text color or the background color, …
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Illustrating an image or a picture by drawing some lines, arrows and some texts would give more information to the user rather than just showing it. This tutorial will focus on drawing custom arrows. Creating custom arrows with ‘Photoshop’ is little over head than in Illustrator. Using illustrator we can create a custom arrow in …
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This post is in continuation with the previous Post (Android Simple RSS Reader with Splash Screen and Custom List View.), where we learnt to parse an xml and show that in a ListView followed by a Detail View. In this tutorial we will add some features like ‘offline reading’ and ‘swipe through detail views’. Here’s …
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RSS (Reach Site Summary): RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. – wikipedia Basically RSS are xml files. We can read RSS files using applications called RSS Readers. In this tutorial we will create a ‘Simple RSS …
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