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To display a page with a text and image over the WebView while it is loading, follow the steps given below. 1. Create a new project in Sketchware. 2. In main.xml , add a LinearV linear1 . * Inside linear1 add a WebView webview1 . Set height of webview1 to wrap_content . * Below webview1 add another LinearV linear2 . * For linear1 set padding to 0. * Inside linear2 add ImageView imageview1 , and a TextView textview1 . * For linear2 set gravity to center_horizontal , center_vertical , and alpha to 0.5. * For webview1 change height to match_parent . 3. Switch On AppCompat and Design . 4. In MainActivity.java , create a more block extra . In this more block declare a RelativeLayout rl and a SwipeRefreshLayout srl, using following codes. } RelativeLayout rl; androidx.swiperefreshlayout.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout srl; { 5. In onCreate event use following codes and blocks. a. In an add source directly block put following codes: rl = new RelativeLayout(th

This post demonstrates how to use the Downloadable Fonts feature introduced in Android O in Sketchware. Downloadable Fonts is a feature that allows apps to request a certain font from a provider instead of bundling it or downloading it themselves. This means, there is no need to bundle the font as an asset. 1. Create a new project in Sketchware. 2. Switch on AppCompat and design. 3. In main.xml add a spinner spinner1 , and three TextViews textview1 , textview2 and textview3 . 4. Add a Shared preferences component spref:spref . 5. Add a String list font_list , and three String variables query , cert_string1 , cert_string2 . 6. In onCreate, a. Add items to font_list using following code: Copy code font_list.addAll( Arrays.asList(new String[]{ "ABeeZee", "Abel", "Abhaya Libre", "Abril Fatface", "Aclonica", "Acme", "Actor", "Adamina", "Advent Pro", "Aguafina Script",

Suppose you have an app which contains a WebView webview1 inside a LinearV linear1 . In onCreate it loads a website and onBackPressed it goes to previous page. To implement SwipeRefreshLayout in this app to reload the WebView, follow the steps given below. 1. Swith on AppCompat and design. 2. Create a more block extra and put codes to declare a SwipeRefreshLayout srl . Copy code } androidx.swiperefreshlayout.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout srl; { 3. In onCreate event, before loading url in WebView; * define a new SwipeRefreshLayout srl , * remove all views from linear1 , * add SwipeRefreshLayout to linear1 , * add WebView to SwipeRefreshLayout, * setOnRefreshListener for the SwipeRefreshLayout, * In onRefresh event of OnRefreshListener, load WebView getUrl in WebView using blocks. Copy code srl = new androidx.swiperefreshlayout.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout(this); linear1.removeAllViews(); linear1.addView(srl); srl.addView(webview1); srl.setOnRefreshList

To zoom images in Sketchware, we can create a new class ZoomableImageView and display the image in it. Follow the steps given below. 1. In the xml page add a LinearV linear1 , with width and height as match_parent , and padding 0. 2. Add your image using image manager. For example image plants . 3. Create a new more block extra and put following codes in it. Copy code } public class ZoomableImageView extends ImageView { Matrix matrix = new Matrix(); static final int NONE = 0; static final int DRAG = 1; static final int ZOOM = 2; static final int CLICK = 3; int mode = NONE; PointF last = new PointF(); PointF start = new PointF(); float minScale = 1f; float maxScale = 4f; float[] m; float redundantXSpace, redundantYSpace; float width, height; float saveScale = 1f; float right, bottom, origWidth, origHeight, bmWidth, bmHeight; ScaleGestureDetector mScaleDetector; Context context; public ZoomableIma

To get a list of all pdf files in device, follow the steps given below. 1. Create a new Sketchware project. 2. In main.xml add a ListView listview1 and a ProgressBar progressbar1 inside a LinearV linear1 . 3. Create a CustomView mycustom.xml . Select it as CustomView for listview1 . 4. In mycustom.xml add a TextView textview1 . 5. In the event  onCreate , call the  AsyncTask GetAllTask  using following code: (new GetAllTask()).execute(); 6. Create two number variables n and r , and two String variables folder and folderName . 7. Create two List String folderList and fileList , and a List Map all_pdfs . 8. Create three more blocks: i.  extra ii.  getFileList in [filePath] iii.  searchFolders 9. In the More Block  extra , use codes and blocks as shown below. Here we perform following actions: i. Define a new class  AsyncTask GetAllTask. } private class GetAllTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> { @Override protected void onPreExec

Here is a simple example of encryption and decryption in Sketchware. Follow the steps below. 1. Create a new project in Sketchware. 2. In  main.xml  add a LinearV  linear1  inside a ScrollV vscroll1 . Inside this add an EditText edittext1 , add two Buttons button1 and button2, and two TextViews textview1 and textview2 . 3. Create a More Block  extra , here use an add source directly block and put following codes. } javax.crypto.KeyGenerator keyGenerator; javax.crypto.SecretKey secretKey; byte[] secretKeyen; String strSecretKey; byte[] IV = new byte[16]; byte[] cipherText; public static byte[] encrypt(byte[] plaintext, javax.crypto.SecretKey key, byte[] IV) throws Exception { javax.crypto.Cipher cipher = javax.crypto.Cipher.getInstance("AES"); javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec keySpec = new javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec(key.getEncoded(), "AES"); javax.crypto.spec.IvParameterSpec ivSpec = new javax.crypto.spec.IvParameterSpec(IV); cipher.init

Here is an example of implementation of a simple drag and drop operation in Sketchware. Follow the steps given below. 1. Create a new project in Sketchware. 2. In main.xml , add a LinearH linear1 with width and height match_parent . Inside linear1 and a LinearV linear2 and a LinearH linear3 . For linear3 set background colour as grey. Inside  linear2 add three ImageViews with width and height 50, and scale type FIT_CENTER. 2. Add three Images and set them as images of ImageViews in linear2 . 3. Add a Vibrator component vib . 4. Create two More Blocks: i. setLongClickListener to ImageView:imageview ii. drag_listener Note that setLongClickListener block contains an ImageView variable imageview . 5. Define more block setLongClickListener by using following codes: _imageview.setOnLongClickListener(new View.OnLongClickListener() { public boolean onLongClick(View v) { ClipData.Item item = new ClipData.Item(v.getTag().toString());