In the previous article we got the project set up for our Text Clock app, and added the business logic code. In this article we’ll begin creating an App Widget that the user can add to their home page.
Month: January 2013
Text Clock – Part 1
Usually on Styling Android the focus is on individual, standalone features and techniques for Android UI / UX development. In this series we’re going to create a very simple app which will be published to Google Play. While we will certainly cover some features and techniques that we haven’t looked at before, as well as…
GridLayout – Revisited
Back in November 2011 I posted a two part series to Styling Android which covered GridLayout which was introduced in Ice Cream Sandwich (API 14). In those articles, I have mentioned that there were hints from Google’s Dianne Hackbourn that it would be released as a compatibility library project, and it has been. However, there…
Multiple Displays – Part 5
In the previous article in this series we enabled the handling of connection and disconnection of external displays within our app, and also changed the theme which was applied to the Presentation that was displayed on the external display. In this concluding article in this series we’ll look at an alternate mechanism for detecting display…