AmbilWarna is an easy to use library to pick up a color in an Android application. The details about the AmbilWarna project is available at http://code.google.com/p/android-color-picker/
In this article we will see how to set up this library in Eclipse ( 4.2.0 )
1. Download the repository containing the library by issuing the given below command :
git clone https://code.google.com/p/yuku-android-util/
2. Open Eclipse IDE and click the menu File->New->Other->Android->Android Project from Existing Code
Figure 1 : Create an Android Project from existing code
3. Select AmbilWarna folder from the downloaded repository
Figure 2 : Select AmbilWarna folder from the downloaded repository
4. Ensure that this project is a library.
In order to make this project a library, right click the new project created in the above step in Project Explorer and click the menu “Properties” and tick the checkbox “Is Library” as shown below and click OK.
Figure 3 : Make this project a library
5. Done
Now Eclipse is ready to develop Android Applications containing Color Pickers
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Hi George, nice article.. however, I’m having some difficulty using this library. I get the following warnings…
The method onTouch(View, MotionEvent) of type new View.OnTouchListener(){} must override a superclass method AmbilWarnaDialog.java /AmbilWarna/src/yuku/ambilwarna line 78 Java
Problem The method onTouch(View, MotionEvent) of type new View.OnTouchListener(){} must override a superclass method AmbilWarnaDialog.java /AmbilWarna/src/yuku/ambilwarna line 55 Java
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I am using the google APIs version 16 in my project.
Hi Roy,
You might be using Java 1.5 instead of 1.6 in Eclipse. In order to check this, go to Windows>Preference>Java>Compiler and select 1.6.
Hi George, can u tell me how can i use this library for windows or the commands issued….in windows…
hi sir Awsm tutorials please help i cant find the AmbilWarna library plz help you show link above i am download but when i import this library its gives error on Eclipse???whats the matter??
when i importing the ambilwarna-master project its showin an error at xml file in xmal folder demopreference.xml in 11th line its showing
error: No resource identifier found for attribute ‘supportsAlpha’ in package ‘yuku.ambilwarna.demo’