Category Archives: ANDROID

How to change the hint text color in android?

By | April 21, 2012

Hello all.. This simple example will show you how to change the hint text color in android Here is the java code to simply do this. here is a sample project to view the difference. This is the contents of the main java file. The main.xml file Here I am setting a read color to… Read More »

How to get Device Orientation in Cocos2D, iPhone in Objective C?

By | June 26, 2012

Hello all…… We may need to know that what is your current device orientation. Using the below code you can do this. Note: If you have to explicitly set the orientation of your phone to any of the above you can set this in the appDelegate.m file. You can put an “||” (OR) symbol in… Read More »

How to inherit from other styles or how to extend your own styles in android?

By | April 18, 2012

Hello all…. I have covered many tutorials on styles on how to implement and use them. Today I will show you how to inherit from other styles or how to extend a style already created by you and use it for applying to other views. Here is one of my previous posts. http://www.coderzheaven.com/2012/02/03/changing-the-style-or-theme-of-default-alertdialog-in-android/ Another one… Read More »

Simulate a Balloon in Box2D, iPhone or ANDROID

By | April 24, 2012

Hello……… Sometimes you may want your body to act against the gravity of the world. One method to do this is described below. First what you have to do is to make a body in the shape of a circle and give it the image of a balloon as the userdata. Then in the tick… Read More »

Date and TimePicker in ANDROID.

By | April 12, 2012

The following code simply allows you to select a date and time using the datepicker and timepicker in ANDROID.

Copying an image to another in ANDROID.

By | June 17, 2012

Here is a simple example to copy an image to another image file in ANDROID. In this example a button click will open the gallery and after that it will be copied to another image file. You have to check the File-explorer to find the file. This is the java code for doing it. here… Read More »

Sprite Animations Without Sprite Sheets

By | April 7, 2012

You can simulate any animations if you have a sequence of images which makes the illusion of that animations and rendering those images to the screen. In cocos2D it can be done in two ways, with sprite sheet animation and without sprite sheets. Here we are going to see how it can be done with… Read More »

How to use CCProgressTimer in Cocos2D to show progress?

By | June 28, 2012

The progress timer takes a sprite and, based on a percentage, displays only a part of it to visualize some kind of progress in your game. You can choose between radial, vertical, and horizontal progress timers. But the timer doesn’t update itself. You have to change the timer’s percentage value frequently to update the progress.

Sprite Animations Without Sprite Sheets

By | April 7, 2012

You can simulate any animations if you have a sequence of images which makes the illusion of that animations and rendering those images to the screen. In cocos2D it can be done in two ways, with sprite sheet animation and without sprite sheets. Here we are going to see how it can be done with… Read More »

Sprite Animations Without Sprite Sheets

By | April 7, 2012

You can simulate any animations if you have a sequence of images which makes the illusion of that animations and rendering those images to the screen. In cocos2D it can be done in two ways, with sprite sheet animation and without sprite sheets. Here we are going to see how it can be done with… Read More »

Sprite Animations Without Sprite Sheets

By | June 28, 2012

You can simulate any animations if you have a sequence of images which makes the illusion of that animations and rendering those images to the screen. In cocos2D it can be done in two ways, with sprite sheet animation and without sprite sheets. Here we are going to see how it can be done with… Read More »

Switch Images in ANDROID.

By | May 1, 2012

Hi all …….. Ofter we have trouble with loading continous images in ANDROID from our application directory. The reason is that all resources have a unique resource ID which we need to get to load these resources. The following example shows how to get these unique identifier from the “path” of the resource. For example… Read More »

How to create shortcut for your application in the Desktop in Android?

By | April 7, 2012

Shortcuts are really useful feature in android. This example also explains how to create shortcut for your app in the desktop of your android phone. This is the complete code of an application which creates a shortcut of this app in the homescreen. Note : You need to add permission for this to work. Now… Read More »

Creating Menu in Iphone Cocos2D or Box2D?

By | June 27, 2012

Use CCMenuItemSprite and CCMenu in iPhone to create menu. call this function to set up the menu for your home page in your iPhone game or you can change this code directly to ANDROID and it will work. Make sure you have all the images mentioned in the above example. This menu will appear on… Read More »

Creating Menu in Iphone Cocos2D or Box2D?

By | April 3, 2012

Use CCMenuItemSprite and CCMenu in iPhone to create menu. call this function to set up the menu for your home page in your iPhone game or you can change this code directly to ANDROID and it will work. Make sure you have all the images mentioned in the above example. This menu will appear on… Read More »

Creating Menu in Iphone Cocos2D or Box2D?

By | April 3, 2012

Use CCMenuItemSprite and CCMenu in iPhone to create menu. call this function to set up the menu for your home page in your iPhone game or you can change this code directly to ANDROID and it will work. Make sure you have all the images mentioned in the above example. This menu will appear on… Read More »

Creating Menu in Iphone Cocos2D or Box2D?

By | April 3, 2012

Use CCMenuItemSprite and CCMenu in iPhone to create menu. call this function to set up the menu for your home page in your iPhone game or you can change this code directly to ANDROID and it will work. Make sure you have all the images mentioned in the above example. This menu will appear on… Read More »

Uploading audio, video or image files from Android to server

By | January 9, 2018

Hello everyone, Check out the popular posts from Coderzheaven.com Uploading and Downloading of files – Popular and Useful posts from CoderzHeaven In one of the previous posts I have shown one method to upload an image in android. Here is another method to upload a media file like images,audio or video in android. Here is… Read More »

Passing data between Intents or classes in ANDROID?

By | March 29, 2012

Many of our application reqiures sending data from one intent to another. This is done by putting data into one intent using putExtras() and getting it in the other intent using the getExtras() which matches the string value. However you can pass string, boolean, integer etc between intents. For passing data between intents you need… Read More »

How to invoke a phone call in ANDROID?

By | March 29, 2012

The following code helps you to invoke a phone call in ANDROID without any user interaction. This code uses intent to start the activity. You know that intent can be used to start another acitivty from with in an application. Dialing a number is done using this code… and Calling number using