I love Custom Views on Android because they provide the power to create anything you think of, understanding the fundamentals of custom views automatically simplifies the replication of any design out there. Well, no one can stop learning, so as I go on, and come across challenging views, I replicate them, add a screenshot of the built view, a link to the code, and a walkthrough on how it was built. Check them out!
Actually I came across this during a talk about custom views, and I wanted to replicate it, it went fine, and this was the layout with variable data.
The image to the left has 5 bars while the one to the right has 10?. Well the way I started off was to draw the main and cross axes, I created a paint object and drew the x and y axes with the appropriate colors, after that I divided the height of the screen by 10, so as to know the exact spacing needed between the graph lines. Then I divided the width of the screen minus the padding, the width of the left axis, and the default spacing by the amount of bars to be drawn. I then calculate by the percent of the bar, the height of the bar is deduced. You can go through the code here
After spending some time with drawing text on android, it was amazing!, I could easily control how text was being drawn on the Android canvas, make modifications and style the text to suit my needs. I learnt how to do various things like alter scale, spacing, size, font and among many others, this is is sample application I built that showcases most of the aforementioned sugar do-able with text drawing on canvas
You can go through the code here
I've had this idea of creating a pattern by repeating rectangles on a canvas by moving its origin by a certain inset value. I had to get half of the width of the screen, so as to know how many rectangles it could accomodate, depending on the spacing provided (10). That's what I did here. I started drawing at the origin, then moved in by 10 on both axes, then moved inside again and again until the threshold was met. And voila!, this beauty came out!. I also added a touchevent listener that redraws the views on-click.
You can go through the code here
I started learning how to work with arcs recently, and it's been amazing!. After a while, I replicated the Pacman character in this view. Love to see it!. I started by drawing the arc with an offset, then completed the revolution. The food/dots were carefully drawn spaces after the center of the pacman character.
You can go through the code here
Another arc exploit, this time I decided to go a bit harder. Built something similar to a stepper that uses an arc to measure progress. Everything on this page is a whole view - completely drawn manually, from the buttons to the arcs, images and circles. I started by drawing a global rect and giving it color, then I drew the circle at the bottom of the screen, and properly positioned the image there (also drawn), I then drew an outlined gray circle on the same path the arc is supposed to be. Then the arc was placed on top, with it's value (in degrees) changing on-click. I then drew the button at the top left with the image and the lightened background, this button reduces the arc's progress by one step. Just beautiful!
You can go through the code here
This was an interesting one, I told myself I could do it after seeing how complicated it was and after a number of days cracking on with the xbox logo, I finally completed it by drawing a bunch of quadratic curves, although it's not perfect, I'd consider it a decent first shot!
You can go through the code here