Steps | Canvas and Camera

Setting Up Our Files

Sun, Apr 19, 2020

We're going to be making a form for a telescope loaner program. In this section we'll be covering setting up permissions in the manifest and resource files we'll be using. It will not cover any strings/colors values, as those are basic.

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Main Menu

Sun, Apr 19, 2020

This can be skipped if you're not setting up a menu. This section will cover completing the preference screen by setting up a Base Activity to house the menu code and keep it out of our Main Activity, and a Preference Activity.

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Basic Form Fields

Mon, Apr 20, 2020

Time to start delving into the bulk of the app. We've gotta build out the form layout and start hookin' up fields'n buttons. Aside from simple edit texts we'll also throw in a date picker, checkbox, vector asset, and an alert.

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Calling the Camera

Mon, Apr 20, 2020

Onto the fun stuff. We're going to setup that 'Take Photo' button to actually do a thing! It's going to launch the built-in camera app, take a photo, and then display that image in our form.

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Signature Canvas

Mon, Apr 20, 2020

Really just a plain ol' canvas whose purpose will be for signatures. We're going to handle setting up a Signature Class to handle all the drawing, and drawing related things, for us.

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Email Intent

Tue, Apr 21, 2020

Now we're going to take our form, picture, and signature and send all that information to the coordinator's email address. This'll be a practice in setting up an email intent with multiple attachments.

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Tutorial Steps

Setting Up Our Files

Main Menu

Basic Form Fields

Calling the Camera

Signature Canvas

Email Intent