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Sams Teach Yourself Android™ Application Development in 24 Hours, Second Edition
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Sams Teach Yourself Android™ Application Development in 24 Hours, Second Edition

by Lauren Darcey, Shane Conder
July 2011
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
512 pages
12h 4m
English
Sams
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Hour 13. Working with Images and the Camera

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

Designing the avatar feature

Working with ImageButton controls and advanced Button features

Launching activities and handling results

Working with the camera and the Gallery

Working with bitmap graphics

In this hour, you add a new feature to the Been There, Done That! settings screen—the ability for the user to add a small graphic or avatar. The user can set the avatar in two ways: by using the handset camera to take a photograph on-the-fly or by choosing an existing image from the handset using the Gallery.

Designing the Avatar Feature

Many mobile applications today are networked and have some social component. Some ways that users differentiate themselves ...

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