Android application resources
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Android Application Development India (AADI) is a professional development company based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, specializing in comprehensive Android solutions. The document emphasizes the importance of application resources, such as images and layout configurations, which are essential for optimizing Android applications for different device specifications without altering the source code. AADI aims to deliver high levels of client satisfaction by employing both technical and non-technical strategies in their Android development services.
Android application resources
- 1. Android Application Resources Android Application Development India (AADI) is a professional Android Development company based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. AADI is an umbrella organisation providing comprehensive Android solutions using its resources and talented Android developers. An Android application is composed of more than just code—it requires resources that are separate from the source code, such as images, audio files, and anything relating to the visual presentation of the application. For example, you should define animations, menus, styles, colors, and the layout of activity user interfaces with XML files. Using application resources makes it easy to update various characteristics of your application without modifying code and—by providing sets of alternative resources—enables you to optimize your application for a variety of device configurations (such as different languages and screen sizes). For every resource that you include in your Android project, the SDK build tools define a unique integer ID, which you can use to reference the resource from your application code or from other resources defined in XML. For example, if your application contains an image file named logo.png (saved in the res/drawable/ directory), the SDK tools generate a resource ID named R.drawable.logo, which you can use to reference the image and insert it in your user interface. One of the most important aspects of providing resources separate from your source code is the ability for you to provide alternative resources for different device configurations. For example, by defining UI strings in XML, you can translate the strings into other languages and save those strings in separate files. Then, based on a language qualifier that you append to the resource directory's name (such as res/values-fr/ for French string values) and the user's language setting, the Android system applies the appropriate language strings to your UI. Android supports many different qualifiers for your alternative resources. The qualifier is a short string that you include in the name of your resource directories in order to define the device configuration for which those resources should be used. As another example, you should often create different layouts for your activities, depending on the device's screen orientation and size. For example, when the device screen is in portrait orientation (tall), you might want a layout with buttons to be vertical, but when the screen is in landscape orientation (wide), the buttons should be aligned horizontally. To change the
- 2. layout depending on the orientation, you can define two different layouts and apply the appropriate qualifier to each layout's directory name. Then, the system automatically applies the appropriate layout depending on the current device orientation. AADI – Android Application Development India is one of the divisions of HiddenBrains, an ISO 9001:2008 certified and Microsoft Certified Partner Offshore software and web application Development Company. AADI is the professional Android Solution providing company that deems in performing every possible technical and non technical effort to meet the desires of the clients and achieving 100% client satisfaction. To know more about AndroidApplicationDevelopmentIndia.com - AADI and its services visit http://www.androidapplicationdevelopmentindia.com/ and please contact us.