In this series we’re going to build an app to view the Mandelbrot set. While this is not necessarily something that is likely to be of direct use to the majority of app developers (except for those that have a desire to develop their own Mandelbrot set viewing apps), there are some techniques that we’ll…
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RadialGradient – Gradients
In a recent series of posts for the MidiPad app, there was a discussion regarding the use of a RadialGradiant to render each PadView and, for aesthetic reasons, this was done using a software layer rather than a hardware layer. In this concluding article we’ll explore a way of adapting things to use a hardware…
RadialGradient – Layers
In a recent series of posts for the MidiPad app, there was a discussion regarding the use of a RadialGradiant to render each PadView and, for aesthetic reasons, this was done using a software layer rather than a hardware layer. In this short series we’ll first take a look at what the differences are, and…
Visualiser – Part 2
In this short series we’re going to look at how we can provide a visual representation of the currently playing audio stream. While this is fairly easy to do there are a couple of tricky points on the way which, if you don’t know about them, can make the task much harder.
Visualiser – Part 1
In this short series we’re going to look at how we can provide a visual representation of the currently playing audio stream. While this is fairly easy to do there are a couple of pain points on the way which, if you don’t know about them, can make the task much harder.
Snowfall
Ho, ho, ho. ‘Tis the season to be jolly, and all that malarkey. As the publication date for this post is Christmas Day 2015, it seems only fitting that we should cover something festive on Styling Android. For those reading who do not celebrate Christmas, and those who are reading this post in June –…