Tag archives for Screen
Creating a Lock Screen Device App for Android
Android SDK offers to developers a specific API, the Device Administration API, letting their users to lock the device screen directly inside an application. This feature can be interesting for some specific applications. In that tutorial, you are learning to create a Lock Screen Device App for Android using this feature. Note that you can also discover this tutorial in…
Trap your Friends with Broken Screen Prank for Android
Broken Screen Prank simulates the broken screen effect on smartphones and tablets to have fun with your friends. Don’t worry, it will not harm your smartphone or tablet. Broken Screen Prank is a funny application to prank your friends by simulating the broken / cracked screen effect. Broken Screen Prank offers you to choose amongst 5 different broken screen styles.…
Create a Splash Screen on Android : the Right Way !
At a certain moment in the past, Google advised against using a Splash Screen on Android Applications. It was useless. Then, when they have published the Material Design Specifications, some of us have seen that the Splash Screen was now a pattern known as Launch Screen. Ideal to display your brand logo during cold start of applications. So, what’s the…
Learn to handle Multi-Touch Gestures on Android
In standard, the Android View class support touch events. It lets you to make applications that react to touch events in your activities. Even better, Android supports multi-touch in standard via the Android View class. To be more concrete, a multi-touch gesture is when a user touches the screen with multiple fingers at the same time. In the documentation, each…
How to record your screen on Android ?
Android KitKat has introduced the possibility to record the screen of your device but not programmatically. The ability to record the screen of your device comes with an external tool added in ADB (Android Debug Bridge). The ADB is a tool used by developers along with the Android SDK to communictate with a device at the command line level. Record…
How to implement a Splash Screen in Android ?
Implementing a splash screen in Android is a redundant question among beginners. With that tutorial, we’re going to see that it’s very easy to implement a splash screen with just some lines of code. Before to continue, it’s important to understand that splash screen is not a recommended design pattern in Android. However, you can implement if you want and…