HOW TO CREATE FLASHLIGHT APP WITH SKETCHWARE

In this post we are going to learn how to create a Flashlight App with Sketchware using this simple steps:

STEPS ON CREATING A FLASHLIGHT APP:

Open your sketchware app and click on create a new app (project).

Create a package and a project name

Drag a vertical linear layout and set the width to match parent

Drag two horizontal linear layouts and set the weight of the bottom horizontal layout to 50

Set the weight of the top horizontal linear layout to 5.

Click on view and turn off the toolbar

Go to Library Manager and turn on App Compat and Design

Go to Image Manager and add two images: torchon and torchoff. The images can be gotten from Here

Go to view,and click on linear3 and set the background resource as torchoff

Click on linear2 and add an imageview

And change the scale type of the imageview to fit center

Add a textview to linear2 and set the width to match parent

Go to Image Manager and add any image of your choice to use as your Flashlight app logo

Change the text in the textview to the name of your flashlight and increase the text size to 20sp

And set the text style of the textview to bold

Go to Activity On Create and create two Boolean variables (Flash and flashLightStatus)

Go to view and set the height of linear2 to 50 and set the background color of linear2 to any color of your choice

Go to on Activity Create,click on operator and click on add source directly

Click on add source directly and put; Flash = getPackageManager(). hasSystemFeature(PackageManager.FEATURE_CAMERA_FLASH);

Go to moreblocks and create two moreblocks (flashOn and flashOff)

Go to flashOn moreblock,click on operator and click on add source directly and add this; android.hardware.camera2.CameraManager cameraManager = (android.hardware.camera2.CameraManager) getSystemService(Context.CAMERA_SERVICE);

try {

String cameraId = cameraManager.getCameraIdList()[0]; cameraManager.setTorchMode(cameraId, true);

flashLightStatus = true;} catch (android.hardware.camera2.CameraAccessException e) { }

Go to flashOff moreblock, click on add source directly and put this; android.hardware.camera2.CameraManager cameraManager = (android.hardware.camera2.CameraManager) getSystemService(Context.CAMERA_SERVICE);

try {

String cameraId = cameraManager.getCameraIdList()[0]; cameraManager.setTorchMode(cameraId, false);

flashLightStatus = false; } catch (android.hardware.camera2.CameraAccessException e) { }

Go to view screen,and set the background color of linear 1 to any color of your choice

Go to component and add a camera component and name it camera

Go to view and click on linear3 on event and copy what's in the image.

Click on Save and Run the app

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