I have been looking for an adequate way to make my design responsive and easily used with mobile devices, within google app maker. Using 'auto' for the horizontal width or vertical height does help with this but the resizing of text even using the css font size by vw results in my content not being compatible with mobile devices and web. Any ideas how to make Google App Maker more 'mobile friendly' so to say, would be greatly appreciated.
The best option is to start with flexible layouts. Panels will adjust to the space available if you set fit to content or fill parent, and widgets will scale in the space available by setting minWidth, maxWidth, minHeight, and maxHeight.
After that, you can design CSS formats that tweak the layout for each screen size you target.
According to the Google App Maker guide for page styles:
To automatically adjust the layout for different screen sizes, use media queries in your global CSS. For an introduction to responsive design, see Responsive Web Design Basics. For an example, see Responsive layout grid.
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I am new in Appcelerator framework, I have developed one application in appcelerator, but that application looks good on IOS but for android its not look good.
I want to develop a screen which is responsive like html.
Is there any way to design appcelerator screen like responsive screen.
Thanks you.
Don't define width, unless calculated. iOS is fairly simple with only a handful different resolutions, on Android you never know what resolutions you might encounter.
Luckily, you can specify widths differently in Titanium than you can in HTML. For example
var view = Ti.UI.createView({
left: 20,
right: 20
});
This will make your view the width of the parent, with 20 padding right and left, the width will be calculated.
Also, always stick to native UI elements. So tabgroups, actionbar/navigationBar should all be used so you don't have to worry about cross platform support, styling and sizing of those elements.
Furthermore, most view should be put in ScrollView's when you don't know how tall the UI is going to be. It could fit on iOS, but not on a small Android device. Putting it in a scrollview will always fix the screen as the scrollview will automatically enable scrolling when the content is taller than what fits.
So conclusion
Width should be defined relative. Either with left/right properties, or calculated
If height of content is not yet known or not designed to be fullscreen wrap it in a scrollview
Stop thinking of apps as websites, start thinking of them as Apps. Layout works differently
Lastly, Appcelerator is the company, Titanium is the technology you're using :)
I am creating WPF application with MAHAPPS.METRO UI. I am using GRID for designing window pages. The every grid rows and columns are fixed height and widths. The problem is when I am run a application in my machine(14" display) it showing perfect. Otherwise the application is incompatible to the bigger screens(above 15"). So I kindly need how to create responsive or compatible with all size of screens. Thankz..
you are looking for Liquid Layout in WPF.
Avoid specifying explicit Width and Height for your elements and it should scale up to whatever screen resolution available.
Check these References:
Discussion on MSDN forums on same topic with lots of pointers
Is WPF Really Resolution Independent?
I'm struggling to understand what width size to design my mobile theme in. A previous design company drafted me an app design and it was all produced using a 640px wide template, this is the ideal size I want to create my new theme in because it works well with the outline icons I want to use which are 48px and this is the right size for the Navigation Bar.
However the coder who will be putting the mobile theme together has suggested I produce the theme at a width of 1080px which is almost double the width size I am currently using and I will not be able to size up the icons to fit this size.
I'd really appreciate some advice on this, I've read that it's also an option to create multiple sizes which automatically convert depending on which device is used.
It depends what kind of application are you talking about. If it is a website, then 320-480 is the ideal for portrait, around 640 for landscape.
If it is a native application, then you might want to use 1080p, because modern mobile phones support full HD apps. Therefore it will look much nicer & crisper.
Also you want to think about if its going to be responsive ( adapting to screen width ) or not.
I am working as a graphic designer. They wanted me design some slider images on a page. But nobody knows the dimensions. I have seen that there are 4 different dimensions for an image when I inspect the page.
Large
Medium
Small
XSmall
So when you enter the website with a mobile phone Xsmall image appears..etc.
I have tried some ruler and responsive view extensions; but it didnt help me.
How can I find exact dimensions?
The exact steps might depend on what browser you are using. Here are some instructions for Chrome (they will be similar for other browsers):
Resize the window to get the image in the smallest dimensions.
Right click the image and "Inspect Element"
You will see a tab for "Computed". This indicates the computed CSS attributes for this image. From this view, you can read the height and width in pixels.
Resize your window and repeat this for each of the image sizes.
A more advanced approach: depending on how they implemented responsive web design, you may be able to view the CSS the page is loading, and look for #media queries which control the size of the image depending on the viewport of the browser. Read more about #media here.
I have been searching for any info on this without success.
I am updating an application that has two versions. A WPF windows app and an MVC web app. The requirement is that they must look the same.
Why when I add an image of, say, 100px X 100px to both the image in the web app looks larger than the image in the win app?
If I add margins the space between the items looks more in the win app than it does in the web app.
I thought I was mistaken so I physically measured both and confirmed the differences.
I want the 100X100 image in both apps to look the same and do not want to up size as this will distort the image.
Can anyone explain why this would happen and any way I can get around it?
Many Thanks
Fred
Assuming no styling is being applied to the images either in XAML or CSS, they could still be different because WPF pixels are device independent.
I guess you could set the ScaleTransform of your WPF app to match the desired size, but remember this will be different depending on monitor size and Windows DPI settings.