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Month: June, 2011

Drop Shadow LinearLayout

29 June, 2011 (09:23) | Components, UI Design | By: Randall Mitchell

I thought I would share this quick tip I just cooked up. To create a drop shadow below a layout component, you can add a “view” of the same width immediately below that component and set the background of that view to a drawable xml file containing a gradient. Here is an example layout file [...]

Calling Activity for Result

9 June, 2011 (14:40) | Activity | By: Randall Mitchell

I was going to write one up but this site did the work as well as I could have: See the tutorial here It’s really a relatively simple problem with a relatively simple solution. Like I prefer to do in my posts, however, the solution has been completely explained. Ps. Nice blog template Sai