Jim:
Yes, and the Android framework has some features that fit in with
Fireworks' capabilities pretty well. For example, the attached is an
image for a button background. This is a flattened PNG slice output and
you might have to expand your view to see what's unique about it. The
name -- btn_enabled.9.png -- indicates to Android that it's a button
image with special 9-patch features. An Android 9-patch has an extra
2-pixel wide transparent border with some 1-pixel black lines on the
sides. The lines at the top and left tell it where to do the stretching;
the lines at the right and bottom tell it where the "contents" (e.g.,
button label) will go. Pretty neat, and it all works!
Anyway, it was easy to design components this way in FW, plus making
multiple images for multi-state widgets (enabled, disabled, pressed,
etc.). Not much different from web graphics.
Doug Gordon
