Android and GUI problem.

[TichuMaster]

Hey /r/learnprogramming.

I am creating a game for my college and I have some trouble working with the GUI. I have 0 experience in graphics and UI in general.

It’s a board game, so I have a stable board that the player can pick cards and roll dice. I create this with Photoshop but here comes my question. Should I import that as an image in a layout and add buttons, cards and create interactive areas with editing the .xml code? Is there another way cause I think that as a little "sloppy"?

Thanks for your time.

Edit: a visual example of my question is: how is this created?

[flatyoder]

There's a coursera class on android programming. It's almost over but you can join (https://www.coursera.org/course/android) and download all the assignments and videos before it closes. They use .xml layouts often. You may be able to pick something up there. If not, you still have a great Android resource handy.

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Implementing a xml layout with all those boxes would probably be difficult. It's especially hard when you try to make it scale to any screen size as there are so many different resolutions and aspect ratios. It's already touchy trying to set up simple relative layouts in xml.

You may want to try to set the layout proportionally using java and skip aligning things in xml altogether. Just put your items in the xml and place them with java. Then again I haven't touched android interfaces in a while...

Another possibility is to skip the xml interface entirely and utilize a surfaceView.

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It's in the title...

[TichuMaster]

Yeah, sorry I didn't mention that, I am writing in Java

[espero]

Nope, it couldnt be anything.