I want to create a dynamic widget for iBooks 2, but I can not dynamically resize the widget to match portrait or landscape mode. I found Apples documentation for resizing dashboard widgets but this doesn't seem to work within iBooks.
As an alternative it would help, if I can lock the orientation for the widget.
Is there a solution to this problem?
There is a widget object that is instantiated in dashboard and iBook contexts. It is not clear, however, if it contains any information about orientation.
It may be possible to add a listener for widget.didEnterWidgetMode, as demonstrated in this widget events demo project on github, and then read your window dimensions. This should tell you whether you are in portrait or landscape.
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On Chromecast, is there any way to customize, style (with CSS), or replace the backdrop application?
(That's the application that runs as a sort of screen saver, when nothing's being cast to the device).
My ideal backdrop app would be an iframe showing something I could control.
No, it cannot be styled or replaced. You have some level of control on what images or information show up there (can be set in your Chromecast app); that is all.
I am working on Tizen. Developing an application on Tizen which has been already developed by me on Android.
I have to place an image in the background.and then place button on it. Click on that button and receive its action in javascript.
How can I place image in the background.
Is their any way to transfer android application on Tizen platform.
Can we make our android application on Tizen?
background-image in CSS can do it.
E.g. put mesh_background_1280x720.jpg into images directory than fix your style.css:
body {
background-image: url("../images/mesh_background_1280x720.jpg");
}
For me this works.
You can do it by using Jquery Mobile.
.ui-icon-myapp-custom {
background: url("settings.png") no-repeat rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4) !important;
}
in HTML,
<a href="#user_info" data-role="button" data-theme="b" data-iconpos="right" data-icon="myapp-custom" >
Custom Icon
</a>
For detail, check
http://jquerymobile.com/test/docs/buttons/buttons-icons.html
Currently there is no support in Tizen SDK to convert Android app to Tizen. But there is a way. A company Open Mobile developed ACL(Application Compatible Layer) for tizen. If you have Android app, you can submit it to them, they can convert it for Tizen. All application credit will be name on you. They will get a amount from samsung. Search ACL in Tizen store, you will find several application under ACL.
I can tell you how to do this using Tizen Native (WYSIWYG). If you are seeking a code based answer, then ignore this. HOWEVER, for those trying to learn and navigate within Tizen Studio this is very helpful!
Start Tizen Studio
File/New Tizen Project
Template / Next
Mobile / Next
Native Application / Next
UI Builder Single View (Bottom Left) / Next
In the Project Explorer (Top Left) open the tree to Layout / Layout.xml (Double click to open the Layout).
Choose Design Tab (Center)
In Palette , UI Container (just to right of center)
Drag "Grid" from the Palette onto your screen
In Properties Tab (far right or turn on: Window/ Show View/ Other/ choose properties OK)
Change Col Count to 720 and Row Count to 1280
Drag "Grid" from the Palette onto your screen
Now you should see more (22) UI Components
Drag "Background" from the Palette onto your screen
If it does not automatically resize (Hello BUG) then do the following. Drag to a little LARGER then your screen size (assuming HD, Look into this I think this is REQUIRED by the Tizen Store).
With Background highlighted, again go to Properties Tab, bottom Variation Attributes make:
Left 0, Top 0, Width 720, Height 1280. The first few times it will give you trouble until you figure out that the BG resized window can't go higher than the BLUE TOP and the window should be larger on the bottom, until you manually type in the CORRECT SIZE as shown above.
Now go to or open your Resource Tab (just drag and drop files here from Windows Explorer) and find your background image that you already RESIZED CORRECTLY in Adobe PS and used SAVE FOR WEB to reduce jpg file size.
Drag onto Background "layer" on your Screen.
For a button you can:
Drag "BUTTON" from UI components onto Background OR BETTER is to drag "IMAGE" from UI components onto Background...
Then drag and drop (PRE-MADE BUTTON from Adobe PS) image from the Resource Manager Tab onto the empty image place holder. You will have to resize it manually in the Properties Tab to get the correct proportions.
REPEAT for more Images and Buttons and Text since the built in text "Label" is horrible to say the least. You can always make any of these do Button Actions.
This is as far as I have come, now I need to learn how to program said buttons and actions.
Whew! This will save you many weeks!
Wish I had found a step by step like this!
Now where to post this?
IO
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This document outline from my sample Storyboard shows what I'm working with.
I have a custom container view controller and two content view controllers connected via embed segues.
Here is the storyboard itself.
ZetaViewController has to create some programmatic views (within ZetaView, of course). I noticed when I was centering these programmatically created views they seemed really off center.
ZetViewController is centering things by examining self.view.bounds.size.height and self.view.bounds.size.width and doing some appropriate arithmetic.
When I added debug logging to ZetaViewController, I noticed that self.view.bounds.size.height and self.view.bounds.size.width had dimensions equal to ContainerView (768 x 1004) and not ZetaView (728 x 637). The Size Inspector in IB confirms these values.
I created a distinctive value for the tag attribute of ZetaView and logged it. ZetaViewController.view really is ZetaView because the tag value confirms it.
So what is going on? Why would ZetaView, shown clearly with smaller dimensions on the Storyboard and in the Size Inspector, show the wrong values in it's properties during run time?
My problem had nothing to do with Storyboards, segues, or custom container view controllers vs content view controllers. It had to do with the new Cocoa Auto Layout features introduced in iOS 5.
My problem arose from inspecting view bounds size in viewDidLoad instead of in viewWillLayoutSubviews. At the time viewDidLoad is called, the view controller's view has not been given its proper size yet. When I moved the code which programmatically centers views to viewWillLayoutSubviews, it worked as I expected. I still leave view creation code in viewDidLoad because viewWillLayoutSubviews is called repeatedly as layout changes.
See also the View Programming Guide for iOS section "Tweaking the Layout of Your Views Manually".
Ok,I'm going to point to an excellent post that I found: (updated)
http://kevindew.me/post/18579273258/where-to-progmatically-lay-out-views-in-ios-5-and
I was having an awful time adding shadow calayers to views after autolayout had done its magic. viewDidLoad, viewWillLoad etc did not have everything correctly laid out.
viewWillLayoutSubviews is called quite a few times and the state isn't fully set up. However... In viewDidLayoutSubviews, finally everything was set up as I expected.
I intent to put some widgets on my launcher screen without the need of the users to pick from the widget list. I googled and found that this operation needs binding appWidgetId to AppWidgetInfo, which is only possible with the BIND_APPWIDGET permission. i.e. this operation is only possible in system app (but my launcher is not). Is my finding correct?
But I found that in GO Launcher, all its widgets can be put on the launcher screen automatically after download and installation. GO Launcher and its widgets should not be system apps. Any idea on how GO Launcher can implement the automatic widget adding to home screen?
Try this:
Answered here
The only issue remains that the added widget doesn't respond to clicks then.
Keep a track of answers here for a solution for that:
Widgets don't respond when re-added through code
I'm trying to create an ipad app in xcode 4 that supports ONLY landscape view. By default the MainWindow.xib file displays the interface in Portrait mode. I cannot change it to landscape mode because the option is grayed out.
If I create a UIViewController subclass, I'm able to rotate that new view to landscape. Just not the original MainWindow.xib viewcontroller.
The way I've been able to work around this, is to create a second view controller and set that to landscape as the option is not grayed out on this one. Then I create a button on the first view controller that switches to the second one where I place all my objects.
There has to be an easier way to have the main viewcontroller "MainWindow.xib" appear in the interface builder as Landscape. I just can't figure it out. Do I really a second view to have a landscape xib to create objects on? If so, how can I have that second view be the main view so that I don't need a button to switch to it?
I'm totally new to Xcode and IOS development, so please forgive my noobness.