The 40s Guys iOS and Android Apps
These are fun apps where the user types a question then one of the guys
gives them a wiseguy style answer that is both animated and heard. To find out
more about The 40s Guys visit their website.
Developing Animation and Graphics on iOS and Android
On iOS screen size is rock solid. You know exactly what it will be, and can be certain
items you place on screen will display as expected. The scale may change but the screen
size is like a rock!
On Android it is a totally different system. Screen sizes, scale and aspect ratio vary
widely. Android handles this with a relative positioning scheme similar to how HTML
pages display.
In the Android version of this application adapting to different screen sizes meant
breaking up the images into parts that could be stretched (text and graphics) and those
that couldn't (faces.)
Screen shots showing how image components are stretched to fit different screen aspect ratios and sizes. Notice that the face and the Facebook and Twitter icons are not stretched to fit the screen.
Android 320x480 Display
Android 720x1280 Display (half scale)
Twitter and Facebook Integration
These apps have the ability to Tweet to Twitter and to Post to Facebook. Facebook
Posts are done using the Facebook SDK which have different versions for iOS and Android.
Twitter has an SDK for Android but Apple has built an iOS library which makes Twitter
very easy for iOS.
To do the simple task of tweeting with an image or posting text with an image to Facebook
can be surprisingly complicated with these APIs. As an example you can check out a post I
made to StackOverflow.com about how to tweet in Android using the twitter4j library here. What's
good about getting to know the interface is you have access to all the user data in these
websites to enhance your application.
Get the Apps
Get the apps on
Google Play
and
Itunes.