New to Android development, but lots of experience in C#, Winforms, Webforms, and MVC.
It's making absolutely no sense whatsoever. I've done the tutorials but I just don't know how to get started or what to do.
I need to make a layout that looks something like this.
Easy in Winforms: some group boxes and lots of labels.
Easy in HTML: a div with a border and a position:relative for the label and a table inside.
What on Earth does on do in Android?
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Trying to use AndroidStudio (3.4.2) for the first time and it appers to be substantially different to the tutorial at
https://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/building-ui
For example:
There is no layout editor toolbar let alone a show button.
There is no autoconnect button
It doesn't show any wiggly lines from the middle of the blue square to its edges.
When adding a text box it goes to the top left and can't be moved.
WTF is going on? This is awful!
So I know this may sound like the hard answer, but in the long run it will make life 1000x easier.
You need to learn XML to design the activities. It's fairly simple and really easy to research. The reason the textbox can't be moved is because the default layout is ConstraintLayout. In order to fix this, go to the xml file and change the Constraint layout to either Relative layout or Linear Layout. In the end, its more simple to learn straight xml.
I suggest you learn Android programming from here or somewhere else because the Android documentation can be confusing especially for a beginner like yourself and trust me, I've been there.
I am tying to create a UI in photoshop that will be used to render a full-width site. I have never used flexbox before and I've never created a full-width site before using it.
I'm wondering if I simply stick to the default bootstrap breakpoints or if I need to be doing something entirely different.
An example of the type of full-width layout:
Thou this is a very general question, I'd have following advice for you:
I would use both, grid & flexbox, since, grids are great for building the bigger picture and make it really easy to manage the overall layout of the page. They are also able to handle more unorthodox and asymmetrical designs.
Flexbox is great at aligning the content inside elements so you can use flexboxes to position the smaller details of a design.
You could use CSS grids for 2D layouts (rows AND columns) and Flexbox for one dimension only (rows OR columns).
There is no reason to use only CSS grids or only flexbox - they work well together in their respective field of usage.
For layouting and screencasts I can definitly recommend Adobe XD - quite fresh in the Adobe-family and free for now.
I hope that gave you some idea how to approach your project andf plan the layout according to your needs.
EDIT:
Have a look at this article - it should give you a fair understanding on how to set breakpoints according to your layout and the media/device.
How can I create a layout similar to this, using shapes?
there are various tools available in market for good UI designing in android, also you can use intelli j idea as an IDE and go for its tutorials ,other links like appinventor , droidDraw will also help you to make a good looking and impressive UI.
also if you want to create exact UI just like that you can use frameLayout in xml.and design it accordingly.
I am trying to find the best method in order to create a horizontal website, full screen and if possible responsive, minimum width to be for tablets. The thing is that I need also the horizontal scrolling with the mousewheel, and I saw that fullPage.js doesn't support that or at least i couldn't manage to make it work on this plugin.
Anyway, I need an idea on building the template, with full screen sections displayed inline - I will be very grateful for any tip. Thanks.
Making horizontally responsive is bit tricky and requires a lot of effort.. There can be many many design approaches for making it responsive. It can't just be described with JSFiddle snippets..
However, I have something for you that will definitely get you started with "Horizontal Responsive Layout designing"..
This is must guide / tutorial for people who want to get started with Horizontal Responsive approach
http://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/04/02/responsive-horizontal-layout/
you could use one of the tools listed in the following links
http://www.cssdesignawards.com/articles/15-excellent-jquery-plugins-to-spice-up-your-sites/44/
http://jquery-plugins.net/scrollit-js-jquery-plugin-for-scrolling-pages
or you could also mix raw js/jquery with anchor links and add animations when clicked. in taht case you can scroll down using mouse wheel and also have fancy animations when a link is clicked
regarding responsiveness use css media queries
I need do a very special nav or tab bar for a app, I looked this but I not have idea how to make some similar, I work with Titanium mobile, someone with experience could tell me how to make some similar with Titanium, or if someone have other navigation bar more complex that the examples on the kitchensink.
This is where I'd start. Understand that that video is obviously a complex interface and will definitely take work on your part.
This (http://softlywired.com/ticustommenu/) piece of code will get you started, but you will need to go way beyond it writing that interface control. I'd then move on to creating the boxes that pop up, without animation, down the center. After that was working, I'd look at animating them and adding the event listeners to it.
You'd be a star in the Titanium community if you got it working and released the source code to it.