I should say that starting on B4i after a couple of years learning B4A was not easy.
Even though Erel has done a great job smoothing out the differences, Android and iOS simply want to do things differently.
Not wanting to pass judgement on which is best, my goal was simply to reproduce a similar environment for me to be able to migrate apps from Android to iOS and to give them a similar feel.
A couple of features that I like to use in B4A and which are missing (or implemented too differently to my taste) are the menus and the Toast messages.
So I created a new class to emulate the Android menus.
I also found a ToastMessage class for B4i written by Pendrush (thanks a lot!), which I tweaked to make it really look more like the one on Android.
The project below shows the two classes in action.
Example:
1. Declare the class in Process_Globals:
2. Initialize the class and load the menu options in Application_Start:
3. Open the menu by clicking on the Navigation bar element (set in the designer)
Note: The Menu class is usable with very few modifications on Android. You may ask why. It turns out I have a couple of older Android devices intended for home automation (Wink Relay) running a crippled version of Android 4.4 which does not support the menus (they do not have the navigation bar either), so I imported the clsMenu class, replaced the TableView with a ListView and adapted the code to the few associated differences and voila. I will post the Android clsMenu class later if there is interest.
Even though Erel has done a great job smoothing out the differences, Android and iOS simply want to do things differently.
Not wanting to pass judgement on which is best, my goal was simply to reproduce a similar environment for me to be able to migrate apps from Android to iOS and to give them a similar feel.
A couple of features that I like to use in B4A and which are missing (or implemented too differently to my taste) are the menus and the Toast messages.
So I created a new class to emulate the Android menus.
I also found a ToastMessage class for B4i written by Pendrush (thanks a lot!), which I tweaked to make it really look more like the one on Android.
The project below shows the two classes in action.
Example:
1. Declare the class in Process_Globals:
B4X:
Private Menu As clsMenu2. Initialize the class and load the menu options in Application_Start:
B4X:
Menu.Initialize( PageMain, 17 )
Menu.AddMenuItem( "Sub1", "mnuSub1" )
Menu.AddMenuItem( "Sub2", "mnuSub2" )
Menu.AddMenuItem( "About", "mnuAbout" )3. Open the menu by clicking on the Navigation bar element (set in the designer)
B4X:
Sub PageMain_BarButtonClick( Tag As String)
If Tag = "Menu" Then
If Menu.Visible = False Then
Menu.Show
Else
Menu.hide
End If
End If
End Sub ' Page_BarButtonClickNote: The Menu class is usable with very few modifications on Android. You may ask why. It turns out I have a couple of older Android devices intended for home automation (Wink Relay) running a crippled version of Android 4.4 which does not support the menus (they do not have the navigation bar either), so I imported the clsMenu class, replaced the TableView with a ListView and adapted the code to the few associated differences and voila. I will post the Android clsMenu class later if there is interest.
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