Android Programming with MIT App Inventor 2
REQUIRED: Create an App Developer's logo
With any app, it's important to "brand" your apps with your own personal icon. You could use a single frame rendered from your Simple House animation, since that is unique to you. Another idea is to make an icon from your initials. PNG is the only format we want to use, since it can have transparency around the image, and that looks MUCH better on the actual device.
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Custom IconIf you are all caught up, you should make your own custom icons out of a pair of initials using some Photoshop magic.
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OPTIONAL: Custom Abstract Backgrounds in Photoshop
We can use Photoshop to create some quick and easy but also beautiful and unique backgrounds to use in our apps and headers to use on our digital portfolio. Use 1080 x 1920 (a portrait (sideways) version of our familiar 1920x1080 Blue-Ray resolution so they look great, even on large tablets.
Use some settings for the gradient tool in Photoshop to create multiple layers of different backgrounds that we will save as JPGs (with some compression) to keep the file size small. SAVE THE PHOTOSHOP PSD to your App Coding project folder so you can always go back and grab another background for each new screen that needs it in your apps.
Use some settings for the gradient tool in Photoshop to create multiple layers of different backgrounds that we will save as JPGs (with some compression) to keep the file size small. SAVE THE PHOTOSHOP PSD to your App Coding project folder so you can always go back and grab another background for each new screen that needs it in your apps.
- Name it Backgrounds and change Width to 1080 pixels and Height to 1920 pixels
- Set your gradient mode to Difference
- Choose a gradient that doesn't have transparency
- Draw random lines and try different gradient patterns and modes
- Rename layers to BG1, BG2, BG3 as you create new ones and hide old ones temporarily
- Mute the colors by using the Image Adjustment - Levels
- Change black or white Output Levels to dim or brighten the image as needed
- Save the image as a JPG with some compression to keep it around 100kb