Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Drawing and erasing using touch on Android

Drawing/Erasing using touch is a common feature in many mobile phone/tablet based apps.
Writing code for this feature is pretty simple for android. Here are steps to do that:
  • add a custom view on which you will draw.
  • process touch event on view.
  • on touch event, record points where touch event occurred.
  • in onDraw method, draw points that were recorded.

Adding a custom view:

We will derive a class from View class for implementing drawing canvas.
And we will add this to UI tree. To add this to UITree, create a LinearLayout in which the
custom view will be added. The LinearLayout is declared in layout xml as:

...... read full blog post and get the code from here: http://blog.avabodh.com/2012/01/drawing-and-erasing-using-touch-on.html



 

Making the iOS text field/view visible which is located under keyboard.

The text view being hidden by keyboard is a very common issue faced by iPhone/iPad developers. When you touch a text view, the text view becomes first responder and keyboard automatically appears. If the text view is lying somewhere in lower part of the screen, most probably it will get hidden under the keyboard.
The solution is to scroll the text view up enough so that it comes above the keyboard. To do that, you need to add the text view in UIScrollView so that it can be scrolled up.

......... read the full blog post and get the code from here: http://blog.avabodh.com/2012/03/making-ios-text-fieldview-visible-which.html