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Android UI Prototyping

It seems to be very helpful to do earlier  prototyping  of  your Applications. Show your ideas at the beginning of your project life cycle and getting the right feedback from the customer could help you to build and design a great software. In this post, we will see an android UI prototyping tool :   UI Prototyping Stencils You can find answers to many issues and  perform your software quality . What the customer expects? What is required and what is optional?  How to show  customer a GUI without implementing?  How to organize menus? What are the desired colors? We can answer earlier these questions by using a Prototyping tool . The Sentil   for the    Pencil GUI prototyping tool  is available as an    add-on for Firefox  and help you to do Prototyping of Abdroid UI. To install: Install the Pencil add-on. Open Pencil by clicking  Tools > Pencil Sketching...  in Firefox. Right-click...

Augmented Reality Part 1

It's so exciting to add  Augmented reality to your Android Application.There are some Open frameworks that allow you  adding AR to your Android project but in this post we will  discover in details how we can make our AR application using Camera, Sensor and GPS. Augmented Reality is a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical real world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensor input, such as sound or graphics. There are many popular Applications of AR such as Layar , wikitube , Googles ... With this post, we want make it easy as possible  for new developers to begin and understand the AR technology. In this first part of tutorial, you will create a custom surface view on which you'll load the camera preview. After creating an Android project including Google Api for the use of the Location librairies, add  the permission of Camera  to your Manifest file. <uses-permission android:name=...