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Difficulty: Medium
Expected Duration: Day
Description
At the end of this activity, you should be able to click the “Add Text” Options Menu created in the previous exercise to bring up a Text Picker Activity. This text entry Activity gives you the option on either entering your own text or selecting a common phrase like “Greetings from”. The color and font of the text can also be selected. Finally, clicking on the Menu, offers an “OK” button that is available for overlaying on the image that you selected for embellishment.
New Android skills you will learn include:
- Start an Activity from the Options Menu
- Create AlertDialogBoxes
- Implement EditText and ImageButtons
- Overlay Text Over the Selected Image.
Basic Steps
- Download the additional files zip file for this exercise. Save it on your computer, and unzip the file. This zip bundle contains files you will need to complete this Activity.
- Visit the instructions for this activity, and perform the steps in the instructions.
- When finished, submit your application as a Android Package (.apk) file. To find the application .apk, look in your Project directory, there should be a directory (folder) called bin. In the bin directory, there will be a file called ProjectName.apk. That is the file to submit. To find your Project directory, right-click on the Project in Eclipse, select Properties, and then look at the Location field on the Resource page. That is the Project directory.
