Articles

As a part of the series of articles that familiarises with the various UI Layouts, we shall today look into creating a table layout from XML and through code. If you have used the table layouts in HTML then this table layout is quite similar to it.  The view controllers are organised as grid made up of rows and columns, where a cell can display a view control. 

In the previous article we have seen how to create an android xml file for a layout creation in android. In this tutorial we shall look into the common layout objects that we can use to create a layout and mechanism of organising the layouts.

In the previous article we have seen how the nine patch image is useful and also gone through the stretchable and non stretchable regions of the image. In this article we will look into the creation of a nine patch image with the draw9patch tool

The 9 patch tool is supplied with android sdk and you can find it in the following location.

In this series of articles, We will be introducing you to Android Game Development using the OpenGL ES graphics API.

We use Eclipse as IDE and the 2.2 android version. I will suppose you know Java programming and that you already created an application for android, this means that you know how to setup an Android project on Eclipse.