When you develop an android app and test the app on your mobile phone, you may want to mirror the android device screen to your working machine like Mac or PC. In that way, you can operate the android phone on the Mac or PC monitor instead of touch the mobile device screen repeatedly. This […]
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This example will show you how to use various android.graphics.Canvas class’s methods to draw text, point, line, circle, rectangle, oval, arc, and self-defined shapes. 1. Android Graphics Canvas Draw Method Example. If you can not watch the above video, you can see it on the youtube URL https://youtu.be/HtR0yY0kCcI The above example demo video shows that
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android.view.SurfaceView is a sub-class of android.view.View. It is used to create custom views in android game development. It does not have the onDraw method, but you can get and use the android.view.SurfaceHolder object to get and lock the view canvas, and then paint on it. This example will show you how to use it.
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This example will show you how to change the android device screen orientation ( horizontal to vertical vice versa ) and how to avoid activity restart during the screen orientation change.
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When you create an Html web page, of course, you want it to be viewable and user-friendly on all screen-sized devices include the mobile device, PC, and tablets. But before the viewport meta tag is introduced in Html, the mobile devices can not display the web page as well as desktop. This article will introduce
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Sometimes you need to connect to the local webserver running on your PC from the android emulator. And sometimes you need to use a PC web browser to browse web pages stored in a web server running in an android emulator. These two scenarios are common use cases when you develop android applications. This article
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We all know that we can set text on the android.widget.Button. But we can add images to the android.widget.Button also. We can even specify the location of the image relative to the text on the button, such as on top, bottom, left, and right to the text. This article will show you an example of
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This example will tell you how to set the android.widget.TextView text foreground color and background color in source code. For other android UI components, it is similar to change foreground and background color like this.
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This example will tell you how to display Html text in the android.widget.TextView and android.webkit.WebView object. 1. Display Html Data In Android TextView And WebView Example. If you can not watch the above video, you can see it on the youtube URL https://youtu.be/gUisxpEm908. There are three buttons on the screen in this example. When you
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Android AbsoluteLayout is used to layout UI components with absolute x, y-axis coordinate values. For example, if you put a button widget in AbsoluteLayout, you can set the button’s layout_x, and layout_y property value to place the button in a specific location. This example will show you how to use it.
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