piggilypoo
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09/10/13 10:21 PM (12 years ago)

Issues with new Android 3.0 core

Hello, Downloaded the new 3.0 core for my apps today, and am having some problems with the way it's changed my app, and I can't seem to find anything in the settings to fix. Here's some of them: #1. The theme settings of my app are no longer applied. For example, I have it set in my control panels global theme to use a dark color. However when I run my BT app, the background is white. It seems the only way to get a screen to a custom color is to change the background color settings on that individual screens; the global themes no longer work. #2. Tabs have been moved to the top under a new title bar. The new tab bar at the top isn't a bad thing, it looks nice. However, these tabs won't be displayed if in your control panel you have the navigation bar hidden. Not a problem, except I want to hide the app icon/title bar. One of the buttons on my tab is a "Home" screen, which uses my own custom icon and takes the users to the home screen of the app. Having an app icon and title that says "home" is a waste of screen space. How do I disable the title bar without losing the tabs? I guess a solution could be to remove the "home" tab I have, but that still takes up an extra line of screen space I'd rather include in the tabs, and also my iPhone version of the app would no longer have a Home tab. #3. Because of the new tab/title bars, the aspect ratio of the background image has to be different or you get white bars on the side. What are the new optimal dimensions for a background image? #4. In the BT control panel, there is an option for context menus, but when you goto select one, the list is empty, and there doesn't seem to be a way to create a context menu. How exactly is this used, and how do you make one? #5. The how-to documentation that's included didn't mention anything about removing the google-play-services-remove file from the libs folder. Took some searching to figure out this was preventing my app from launching. Should probably add that into the guide! tl;dr version: - Global themes stopped working? No way to change screen background color unless you edit each sceen individually. - How do you disable the top title bar & icon, while keeping the bar of tabs? - Best resolution for background images? - How do you make/use context menus? - Instructions guide included with package should mention removing google-play-services-remove from libs folder
 
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09/10/13 10:48 PM (12 years ago)
I can't answer all of 'em. 1) Noticed, but haven't bothered with that yet. 2) Haven't worked with all that yet. You might try some of these suggestions though... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2446373/android-title-bar-removal 3) I have no idea, lol! Because all of the androids are all different sizes, what works on one device might be slightly askew on another. you might try adding 44 pixels on to the height and see if it matches what xcode does... 4) Context menus are created using the new 'menu' selection in your BT Control Panel. Between 'screens' and 'users' I think. They're assigned in plugin navigation bar areas. 5) The "Google Play Services Remove" jar is a file placed in there to keep the projects from going crazy if Google Play services are not installed. Explicitly giving directions to remove it is probably a good idea in the long run. Sorry I can't explain everything well enough; I'm still wrapping my head around some of it. Cheers! -- Smug
 
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09/15/13 05:22 PM (12 years ago)
Thanks for the help with context menus! As far as removing that top bar.. nothing in that link worked. Still can't seem to remove it no matter what I try :/
 

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