Form

Last Updated On 2021-07-16

Version 29MinSDK 7Tutorial Video

Top-level component containing all other components in the program

Properties

You can set the below properties in the UI part of the builder.

  • AboutScreen - it's a textArea value which is set to blank by default.
  • AccentColor - it's a color value which is set to &hffff4081 by default.
  • ActionBar - it's a boolean value which is set to false by default.
  • AdmobAppId - it's a string value which is set to blank by default.
  • AlignHorizontal - it's a horizontal alignment value which is set to 1 by default.
  • AlignVertical - it's a vertical alignment value which is set to 1 by default.
  • AppName - it's a string value which is set to blank by default.
  • BackgroundColor - it's a color value which is set to &hffffffff by default.
  • BackgroundImage - it's a asset value which is set to blank by default.
  • BlocksToolkit - it's a subset json value which is set to blank by default.
  • CloseScreenAnimation - it's a screen animation value which is set to default by default.
  • Icon - it's a asset value which is set to blank by default.
  • MinSdkVersion - it's a sdk versions value which is set to 19 by default.
  • NavigationBarColor - it's a color value which is set to &hffffffff by default.
  • OpenScreenAnimation - it's a screen animation value which is set to default by default.
  • PackageName - it's a string value which is set to blank by default.
  • PrimaryColor - it's a color value which is set to &hff6200ee by default.
  • PrimaryColorDark - it's a color value which is set to &hff3700b3 by default.
  • ScreenFontTypeFace - it's a asset value which is set to blank by default.
  • ScreenOrientation - it's a screen orientation value which is set to unspecified by default.
  • Scrollable - it's a boolean value which is set to false by default.
  • ShowAboutInMenu - it's a boolean value which is set to true by default.
  • ShowListsAsJson - it's a boolean value which is set to true by default.
  • ShowOptionsMenu - it's a boolean value which is set to true by default.
  • ShowStatusBar - it's a boolean value which is set to true by default.
  • Sizing - it's a sizing value which is set to responsive by default.
  • StatusBarColor - it's a color value which is set to &hff3700b3 by default.
  • TargetSdkVersion - it's a sdk versions value which is set to 29 by default.
  • Theme - it's a theme value which is set to theme.materialcomponents.light.darkactionbar by default.
  • Title - it's a string value which is set to blank by default.
  • TitleVisible - it's a boolean value which is set to true by default.
  • TutorialURL - it's a string value which is set to blank by default.
  • VersionCode - it's a non negative integer value which is set to 1 by default.
  • VersionName - it's a string value which is set to 1.0 by default.

Block Properties

You can set the below blocks properties in the blocks section of the builder.

AboutScreen

Information about the screen. It appears when "About this Application" is selected from the system menu. Use it to inform people about your app. In multiple screen apps, each screen has its own AboutScreen info.


AlignHorizontal

A number that encodes how contents of the screen are aligned horizontally. The choices are: 1 = left aligned, 3 = horizontally centered, 2 = right aligned.


AlignVertical

A number that encodes how the contents of the arrangement are aligned vertically. The choices are: 1 = aligned at the top, 2 = vertically centered, 3 = aligned at the bottom. Vertical alignment has no effect if the screen is scrollable.


BackgroundColor

BackgroundColor property getter method.


BackgroundImage

The screen background image.


CloseScreenAnimation

The animation for closing current screen and returning to the previous screen. Valid options are default, fade, zoom, slidehorizontal, slidevertical, and none


Height

Screen height (y-size).


NavigationBarColor

Sets navigation bar color


OpenScreenAnimation

The animation for switching to another screen. Valid options are default, fade, zoom, slidehorizontal, slidevertical, and none


Platform

The platform the app is running on, for example "Android" or "iOS".


PlatformVersion

The dotted version number of the platform, such as 4.2.2 or 10.0. This is platform specific and there is no guarantee that it has a particular format.


ScreenFontTypeFace

Property for ScreenFontTypeFace


ScreenOrientation

The requested screen orientation, specified as a text value. Commonly used values are landscape, portrait, sensor, user and unspecified. See the Android developer documentation for ActivityInfo.Screen_Orientation for the complete list of possible settings.


Scrollable

When checked, there will be a vertical scrollbar on the screen, and the height of the application can exceed the physical height of the device. When unchecked, the application height is constrained to the height of the device.


ShowAboutInMenu

Property for ShowAboutInMenu


ShowOptionsMenu

Property for ShowOptionsMenu


ShowStatusBar

The status bar is the topmost bar on the screen. This property reports whether the status bar is visible.


StatusBarColor

Sets status bar color


StatusBarLightIcons

Property for StatusBarLightIcons


Title

The caption for the form, which apears in the title bar


TitleVisible

The title bar is the top gray bar on the screen. This property reports whether the title bar is visible.


VersionCode

An integer value which must be incremented each time a new Android Application Package File (APK) is created for the Google Play Store.


VersionName

A string which can be changed to allow Google Play Store users to distinguish between different versions of the App.


Width

Screen width (x-size).



Methods

You can set the below method blocks in the blocks section of the builder.

AddActionBarIcon

Call this after MenuInitialize Event

AddMenuItem

Call this after MenuInitialize Event

AddMenuItemWithIcon

Call this after MenuInitialize Event

AreMultiplePermissionGranted

When Verifying that all the permissions mentioned in the list have been allowed, it will return true or false.

AskForPermission

Ask the user to grant access to a dangerous permission.

HideKeyboard

Hide the onscreen soft keyboard.

IsPermissionGranted

Checks whether the mentioned permission has been granted, it will return true or false.

KeepScreeenOn

Method for KeepScreeenOn

MoveTaskToBack

Method for MoveTaskToBack


Events

You can set the below event blocks in the blocks section of the builder.

ActionBarIconClick

Event for ActionBarIconClick

BackPressed

Device back button pressed.

ErrorOccurred

Event raised when an error occurs. Only some errors will raise this condition. For those errors, the system will show a notification by default. You can use this event handler to prescribe an error behavior different than the default.

Initialize

The Initialize event is run when the Screen starts and is only run once per screen.

MenuInitialize

Event for MenuInitialize

MenuItemClick

Event for MenuItemClick

OnCreate

Invokes when the Screen is created

OnDestroy

Invokes when the Screen is destroyed

OnPause

Invoked when the user leaves the Screen

OnResume

Invoked when the Screen comes to the foreground

OnStart

Invokes when the Screen starts to show the UI

OnStop

Invokes when Screen is no longer visible to the user

OtherScreenClosed

Event raised when another screen has closed and control has returned to this screen.

PermissionDenied

Event to handle when the app user has denied a needed permission.

PermissionGranted

Event to handle when the app user has granted a needed permission. This event is only run when permission is granted in response to the AskForPermission method.

ScreenOrientationChanged

Screen orientation changed