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Cardboard VR Projects for Android

You're reading from   Cardboard VR Projects for Android Develop mobile virtual reality apps using the native Google Cardboard SDK for Android

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785887871
Length 386 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Virtual Reality for Everyone FREE CHAPTER 2. The Skeleton Cardboard Project 3. Cardboard Box 4. Launcher Lobby 5. RenderBox Engine 6. Solar System 7. 360-Degree Gallery 8. 3D Model Viewer 9. Music Visualizer Index

Adding Hello Virtual World text overlay


For starters, we're just going to put some text on the screen that you might use for a toast message to the user, or a heads-up display (HUD) with informative content. We're going to implement this incrementally in small steps:

  1. Create a simple overlay view with some text.

  2. Center it on the screen.

  3. Add parallax for stereoscopic viewing.

A simple text overlay

First, we'll add some overlay text in a simple way, not stereoscopically, just text on the screen. This will be our initial implementation of the OverlayView class.

Open the activity_main.xml file, and add the following lines to add an OverlayView to your layout:

<.OverlayView
   android:id="@+id/overlay"
   android:layout_width="fill_parent"
   android:layout_height="fill_parent"
   android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
   android:layout_alignParentTop="true" />

Note that we reference the OverlayView class with just .OverlayView. You may do this if your view class is in the same package as your MainActivity...

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