Sketchware Help

To create an EditText with animation features, we can use the EditText in a TextInputLayout which is a Layout interface in android.support.design.widget library. In Sketchware we cannot add it in xml file but we can create it programmatically. Follow the instructions given below for a simple example. 1. In VIEW area of your project add a Linear vertical  linear7  and inside this add three EditText fields  edit_email, edit_username, and edit_password . For the three EditText fields set hint as Email, Username and Password respectively. 2. Switch On AppCompat and design . 3. In onCreate event, i. Use codes to remove all Views from linear7 . linear7.removeAllViews(); ii. Define a TextInputLayout textinput1 , and add edit_email to it. com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout textinput1 = new com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout(this); textinput1.addView(edit_email); iii. Define a TextInputLayout textinput2 , and...

To retrieve Build information about the device we can use the android.os.Build class. 1. Create a new project in Sketchware. 2. In VIEW area add a TextView for each parameter to be retrieved. We can retrieve Device, Model, Product, Manufacturer, Brand, API level, Board, Bootloader, Display, Fingerprint, Hardware, Host, and Id. 3. Add following String variables: device, model, product, manufacturer, brand, api_level, board, boot, display, fingerprint, hardware, host, and id. 4. In onCreate event use add source directly block and put following code. device = android.os.Build.DEVICE; model = android.os.Build.MODEL; product = android.os.Build.PRODUCT; manufacturer = android.os.Build.MANUFACTURER; brand = android.os.Build.BRAND; api_level = android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK; board = android.os.Build.BOARD; boot = android.os.Build.BOOTLOADER; display = android.os.Build.DISPLAY; fingerprint = android.os.Build.FINGERPRINT; hardware = android.os.Build.HARDWARE; host = a...

To enable fullscreen mode for YouTube videos in your sketchware project, follow the steps given below. 1. Create a new project in Sketchware. 2. In VIEW area add a WebView  webview1. 3. Create a more block  extra . 4. In the more block  extra , use an add source directly blocks and put codes to define a new WebChromeClient class with name CustomWebClient . } public class CustomWebClient extends WebChromeClient { private View mCustomView; private WebChromeClient.CustomViewCallback mCustomViewCallback; protected FrameLayout frame; // Initially mOriginalOrientation is set to Landscape private int mOriginalOrientation = android.content.pm.ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE; private int mOriginalSystemUiVisibility; // Constructor for CustomWebClient public CustomWebClient() {} public Bitmap getDefaultVideoPoster() { if (MainActivity.this == null) { return null; } return BitmapFactory.decodeResource(MainActivity.this.getApplicationContext(...

To add a VideoView to play videos picked from Sdcard follow following steps in Sketchware. 1. Create a new project in Sketchware. 2. In VIEW area add a Button button1 and a LinearLayout  linear2 . 3. Create a String List  list,  and a String variable str . 4. Add a FilePicker component fp with mime type video/* . 5. Create a more block  extra . 6. In the more block  extra , use an add source directly block and put codes to declare a VideoView  vidview  and an MediaController mediaControls . } VideoView vidview; MediaController mediaControls; { 7. In  onCreate  event, use  add source directly  blocks and put following codes: i. Define the VideoView vidview, set it's LayoutParams, and add it to the linear 2. vidview = new VideoView(this); vidview.setLayoutParams(new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LinearLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)); linear2.addView(vidview); ii. ...

To implement a SearchView for a simple ListView showing a String list in Sketchware, follow the steps given below. 1. Create a new project in Sketchware. 2. In VIEW area add a ListView listview1 . 3. Switch On AppCompat and Design. 4. Create a String List list . 5. Create a more block extra . 6. In the more block extra , use an add source directly block and put codes to declare a SearchView searchview and an ArrayAdapter adapter . After that add the SearchView as an OptionsMenu item. } android.support.v7.widget.SearchView searchview; ArrayAdapter<String> adapter; @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu( Menu menu) { menu.add(0,0,0,"search").setActionView(searchview).setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_ALWAYS); return true; } { 7. In onCreate event, add items to the String List list . 8. After adding items to the list use add source directly blocks and put following codes: i. Define the ArrayAdapter and set it as adapter of L...

The CustomView can be used to create a custom PopupWindow in Sketchware, by using simple codes. Follow the steps below to create a custom PopupWindow. 1. In VIEW area of your project add a new CustomView ' myview.xml '. 2.  Design the CustomView  the way you want your custom PopupWindow to look like. In the image above, I have added four TextViews, of which two act as buttons (namely ' textview3 ' and ' textview4 '). 3. Choose the event on which you want to show the PopupWindow. It can be onBackPressed or onButtonClick, etc. 4. On the event when dialog is to be shown, use  add source directly  blocks to create and show the PopupWindow. In the image above I have added the code to button1 onClick event. The code used is explained below. a) First create a View from the CustomView layout file (myview.xml) which will be used as PopupWindow. View popupView = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout. myview , null); Note that here 'myview...

To create a simple pdf reader in Sketchware follow the instructions given below. 1. Create a new project in Sketchware and create a VIEW as shown in image below: linear2 : A LinearH for the buttons/tools. linear3 : A LinearV for displaying images. Set it's padding to 0. button1 : A Button for picking PDF files. edittext1 : An EditText for displaying the page number. Set it's input type to numberSigned . textview4 : A TextView for displaying total number of pages. textview3 : A Button to move to page number entered in edittext1. textview1 : A Button to move to previous page. textview2 : A Button to move to next page. 2. Remove Toolbar and Status Bar of this View to make it full screen. 3. Add a File Picker component file_picker: application/pdf . 4. Add two number variables page and pageCount , and a String variable pdfFile . Also add a String list. 5. Add two more blocks: extra and display page(i) . 6. In onCreate event use add s...

To create a Torch Flashlight application for Android with Sketchware follow the steps given below. 1. Create a new project in Sketchware. In VIEW area add an ImageView imageview1 . Set it's width and height to 100, and scale type to FIT_XY. 2. Using Image Manager add two images  ic_flash_on_black  and  ic_flash_off_black . 3. Set  ic_flash_off_black  as the image of imageview1. 4. In Library manager switch on AppCompat and Design . 5. Add a Camera component . 6. Add two Boolean variables: flashLightStatus and hasCameraFlash . 7. Add two More Blocks: flashLightOn and flashLightOff . 8. In onCreate event, use add source directly block and put following code: hasCameraFlash = getPackageManager(). hasSystemFeature(PackageManager.FEATURE_CAMERA_FLASH); 9. In More Block flashLightOn , use add source directly block and put following code: android.hardware.camera2.CameraManager cameraManager = (android.hardware.camera2.Camer...

To display an online text file or source code of any web url, in a TextView, we have to do following: Create a URL object from the String representation. Use openStream() method to open a connection to this URL and and get the InputStream for reading from that connection. Create a new BufferedReader , using a new InputStreamReader with the URL input stream. Read the text, using readLine() method of BufferedReader. But this cannot be done directly in an android project because android apps do not allow networking operation on its main UI thread. Therefore we need to use AsyncTask class, which allows us to perform background operations and publish results on the UI thread. To create such an online text file reader app in sketchware, follow the steps given below: 1. Create a new project in Sketchware. In VIEW area add a LinearV inside a ScrollV. In this add an EditText edittext1  (for writing URL), a Button button1 , and a TextView textview1  (for...