Hi!
I'm progressing pretty far into my first commercial App - learning all about Android and I'm loving it! B4A is the Best! I have a question: I need to display some mixed rich text and graphics in a scrollable Listview for an introduction to my app. I am not sure the best approach. I need some way to easily edit the intro text with an editor and then package it in the APK. I was thinking about writing the intro in HTML with Word or a WYSIWYG HTML editor but I haven't seen anything yet (or maybe I didn't dig around here enough) about doing a WebView of a local HTML file rather than an internet-based URL. How do you read and display phone-resident HTML files? How do most of you code your scrollable Help and intro screens? I could read each line of text from a file and then stuff it into into a scrollable listview one line at a time(or perhaps 2) but if I have mixed text and graphics and will run into a snag so HTML probably would be my best bet, I was thinking a PDF file but no facility exists in the b4A libraries to display a PDF file in a scrollable llistview - something to add to the Wish List! There are free utils out there to convert a PDF into a BMP/JPG file and then that could be displayed but this approach is not efficient. Not sure how to display a "long" JPG file. Any tutorials on here exist with the answers for my question? I spent last night coding a slick blinking prompt for my Splash Screen -that works well and now ready to move forth with further coding of the business logic of my App. I hope to put it on the Market early next year. I have about 12 Apps going on in my head right now but figure getting the first written and released is my highest priority. I just write down all my ideas and as I code this first app. I write in a manner that makes the code reusable and portable for my future creations. Something we all should do.
thx,
Ray
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I'm progressing pretty far into my first commercial App - learning all about Android and I'm loving it! B4A is the Best! I have a question: I need to display some mixed rich text and graphics in a scrollable Listview for an introduction to my app. I am not sure the best approach. I need some way to easily edit the intro text with an editor and then package it in the APK. I was thinking about writing the intro in HTML with Word or a WYSIWYG HTML editor but I haven't seen anything yet (or maybe I didn't dig around here enough) about doing a WebView of a local HTML file rather than an internet-based URL. How do you read and display phone-resident HTML files? How do most of you code your scrollable Help and intro screens? I could read each line of text from a file and then stuff it into into a scrollable listview one line at a time(or perhaps 2) but if I have mixed text and graphics and will run into a snag so HTML probably would be my best bet, I was thinking a PDF file but no facility exists in the b4A libraries to display a PDF file in a scrollable llistview - something to add to the Wish List! There are free utils out there to convert a PDF into a BMP/JPG file and then that could be displayed but this approach is not efficient. Not sure how to display a "long" JPG file. Any tutorials on here exist with the answers for my question? I spent last night coding a slick blinking prompt for my Splash Screen -that works well and now ready to move forth with further coding of the business logic of my App. I hope to put it on the Market early next year. I have about 12 Apps going on in my head right now but figure getting the first written and released is my highest priority. I just write down all my ideas and as I code this first app. I write in a manner that makes the code reusable and portable for my future creations. Something we all should do.
thx,
Ray
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