[android-developers] Re: Creating an Android VN

Thanks for the suggestions. This at least gives me somewhere to start!

On Jun 4, 10:44 am, Lance Nanek <lna...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Overlapping things in Android is pretty trivial. For example, when you
> put multiple children in a FrameLayout, they are all shown on top of
> each other as per the documentation:http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/FrameLayout.html
>
> Another method is the Toast utility for showing text messages on top
> of everything else:http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Toast.html
>
> And of course dialogs are another way to show a window of content on
> top of another screen:http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/dialogs.html
>
> It isn't far enough along that I've put any effort into cleaning up
> the code/XML, but you can see the FrameLayout method being used to
> compose layers of a character and controls here:http://code.google.com/p/growing-phone-pet/source/browse/trunk/res/la...
>
> There's a FrameLayout there explicitly, but the PetView that is
> composing the different images that make up the scenery and character
> is also a subclass of FrameLayout.
>
> On Jun 4, 12:10 am, EwanG <ewan.grant...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > OK, so... question was too broad? No such examples exist? No one here
> > who would be interested in such a thing if it were written? :-)
>
> > On May 30, 10:04 pm, EwanG <ewan.grant...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I am looking for an example of how to setup a screen with a
> > > background, an overlay image (my character), and over that a frame
> > > that sometimes has text, and sometimes has menu options.
>
> > > To make myself clearer, as I suggest in the title I'm trying to create
> > > aVisualNovelfor Android. Something like I've done in Flash and
> > > using RenPy, but with mobile sensibilities (make the buttons more
> > > touch friendly, use the accelerator for certain inputs, etc).
>
> > > Any good, publicly available source code I should check out? I have
> > > written one previous Android Program (Mars Lander which I gather is
> > > still floating about), but this is different enough I think I need a
> > > bit of help.
>
> > > Thanks in advance!

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