Create Flipboard using B4A?

vb1992

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• Jul 18, 2012

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Here is a good example:

http://www.b4x.com/forum/additional...-providing-page-turn-animation.html#post60205

 

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solidstate

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• Jul 18, 2012

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Thanks, but from the description, that "component" is for bitmaps images. I'm not trying to create a picture album. As I stated, I was looking for something that would emulate an eReader, i.e., TEXT on a page, not images on a page.

 

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thedesolatesoul

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When you create the illusion of a page turning, or a board flipping, you WILL have to convert your text(or any rich content) to a bitmap(image), so that you can manipulate the bitmap to show the animation.
EDIT:
Actually it might be possible to use the Android view animation class, but I do not know how to.

 

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vb1992

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I haven't look at this one, but it looks like a listview is being turned

http://www.b4x.com/forum/basic4andr...022-page-turner-works-listview.html#post61582

http://www.b4x.com/forum/basic4andr...ithout-using-page-turn-library.html#post60765

 

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vb1992

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Here is the APP/DEMO Apk file example

 

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solidstate

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• Jul 18, 2012

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Thanks for the .apk

A few comments. It is very difficult to get the page edge to "start" to turn. It may be on account of the fact that the app doesn't know whether the touch gesture is intended to be a selection of the scroll list, or whether the gesture is supposed to trigger a page turn.

I understand that one has to render the next page's text to a bitmap in order to achieve the page flip effect. Would this be true if all one was doing was causing the next page to horizontally scroll right to left, as the Kindle for Android works? Kindle for Android does not use page "flips."

 

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solidstate

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• Jul 18, 2012

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And what about a rich text viewer? Does B4A have such a component available that would display either HTML or rich text, and then allow some method of sensing if a word within the text viewer is being tapped, selected or touched?

 

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vb1992

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• Jul 19, 2012

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I had no problem swiping the page back and forth
but I didn't test it on all my test devices only one.

I am sure you can modify that project to use a webview (html)
or Rich Text Library http://www.b4x.com/forum/additional...dates/10680-richstring-library.html#post59476

You Just got to spend a weekend and code a protoype.

 

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vb1992

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I am not a kindle expert, you would have to ask someone else
or install it on a kindle

 

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thedesolatesoul

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Nice sample vb
Works fine for me
Only that on turning the page the underlying page appears linearly even if the page turn is at an angle. Probably a sliding panel.

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