Comments on: Migrated Caltroid to Android SDK 1.0 http://www.heikkitoivonen.net/blog/2009/01/14/migrated-caltroid-to-android-sdk-10/ A Finn in Silicon Valley - Adventures in Technology Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:58:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Heikki Toivonen http://www.heikkitoivonen.net/blog/2009/01/14/migrated-caltroid-to-android-sdk-10/comment-page-1/#comment-6642 Heikki Toivonen Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:03:45 +0000 http://www.heikkitoivonen.net/blog/?p=602#comment-6642 Heh, I actually knew about NinePatch and to me that is a huge amount of work. I am not a graphics person, so first of all the learning curve to make a png that would look as a button would be pretty steep. Then learning to use NinePatch to mark parts of the image for stretching. Heh, I actually knew about NinePatch and to me that is a huge amount of work. I am not a graphics person, so first of all the learning curve to make a png that would look as a button would be pretty steep. Then learning to use NinePatch to mark parts of the image for stretching.

]]> By: AJ http://www.heikkitoivonen.net/blog/2009/01/14/migrated-caltroid-to-android-sdk-10/comment-page-1/#comment-6640 AJ Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:12:17 +0000 http://www.heikkitoivonen.net/blog/?p=602#comment-6640 Just wanted to point out that you should be able to style buttons with a 3d effect fairly easily if you use the NinePatch technique. Pretty much just provide a png which can be scaled to the button's size. http://code.google.com/android/reference/available-resources.html#ninepatch Just wanted to point out that you should be able to style buttons with a 3d effect fairly easily if you use the NinePatch technique. Pretty much just provide a png which can be scaled to the button’s size.

http://code.google.com/android/reference/available-resources.html#ninepatch

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