What is the best approach "playing" with the design of a ListView (and of course the ListItem).
I'm not looking for something really fancy, just giving the right background, changing the font family and size and put the text in the middle.
I followed a tutorial suggested creating an Adapter and implementing the method getView. It actually worked but I wonder if there's a simpler way for my terms.
Thanks.
No this is the best way for doing listviews
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I want to create a crossword puzzle using android studio. the problem that I run into is I can't figure out a good way to draw the crossword puzzle the crossword
upon selecting a word from that shape. the user will access an interface that is designed specifically for that word. where to enter the answer
The problem I have is how to actually create that crossword shape, especially since I need it to be created dynamically afterwards based on the supplied data.
After 15 days of research all I can find are those possibilities:
Using Table layout with each cell representing a character. But this approach is not appropriate and not optimate and create many problems.
Using GridView with the unused cells set to be invisible. this is better but I think there is a better way than creating Grids only to set most of it to invisible.*
**I am sure there is a better way, but can't figure it out.
I know I have to give a code sample for what I have but I can't even do that till I know what approach I need to create this. If there is any suggestion to make my question clear that will be welcomed as well.
Neither. This calls for custom view for the word grid. While you can probably get it to work without one, it's going to look very amateurish, and you're going to be very hacky. Instead, you'll want a totally custom view doing its own keyboard input handling. Unless this is like a school project where looks and UX don't matter and you just need it done.
I've been searching for a while now how to do some "Advance" lists like the facebook news feed and I don't think I am using the right keywords to search how to do that. I'm still quite new to android environment.
This is what I am trying to achieve:
How would I achieve a kind of list like that? Can I just do somekind of layout with a scrollbar and feed in some custom views? Do I need to do some kind of advance list?
Thank you for refering me to some useful information
For simplicity's sake, I would recommend maybe you should use a ScrollView nesting a Vertical LinearLayout and dynamically add all your child items in there.
I know...it's not the right way, but this is coming from a (somewhat) beginner's point of view here myself. (I've been coding all my life, but I was immediately not a fan of Lists and "Adapters" when I got into Android.)
So, if/when you need to search through/categorize/sort/manage your items I would suggest maybe using View.setTag() to store key information about each child, and either a) loop through all your child elements for deep searching, or b) use View.findViewsWithText() or findViewWithTag() for quick searching/categorizing.
It can get dirty pretty quick if you have to do extensive sorting, but in my head (and maybe yours) I would rather use what I know rather than learn what I don't know.
I didn't intend this to be an rock-solid answer, but it's a lot of info to cover in the comments.
Happy programming
Friends,
I am trying to develop an application which requires the below UI:
I know its not a feasible thing to run a ListView with-in ListView or with-in a ScrollView. So I'll like to know that Is there any other way to do this same thing ? as the UI has to be same as its running in its LIVE iOS App.
Thanks in advance.
Solution: Thanks guys for all of your answers, but as I told that the Expandable-ListView is not the option in my condition. So I have creating a dynamic layout in Java Class file using an amount of various Layouts & Widget's Array. It took a lot of practice but it covered the necessity.
android-expandable-listview-simple
check this it will help you
You don't really describe your problem in detail but from your indication of a blue bar at the left, I suppose that you want to have some sort of a secondary ScrollView inside the primary ListView; which itself has its one scrolling view. If so, then using an ExpdandableListView will not be the solution that you want.
Android has some difficulties managing a ScrollView inside another ScrollView but if this is what you want, then take a look at: ScrollView Inside ScrollView .
Be warned that these solutions are not perfect and that probably you will never achieve the same level of control for this type of thing on Android as you can have on iOS.
At the top there is the favorites/styles/all channels
i don't know what that widget/control is i need to know what it is
i am certain i saw it before i just can't seem to find it again.
then there is a listview which is easy to implement no help needed there
then the same control again, i need to know how to build it.
it looks like a native Android control, i know how i can make one just like it using image buttons but i am sure i am missing something.
P.S. this is an image from sky.fm app on android
EDIT: I Do no need help with the ListView i already did that
What i do need help with is how to make the "favorites/styles/all channels" buttons if there is a way to do natively.
If there isn't a way to do natively, and you are sure just say there isn't a way to do natively ( that would be a good answer )
the perfect answer would be a working code, but i am not lazy i am already implementing the code my self
There's no native control for this. It's probably a Button or maybe ToggleButton. You could create a background xml with different states for selected true or false. And when you click the button toggle the selected state.
Top might be a custom tab layout, or just a bunch of buttons with custom styling.
Main part looks like a listview with complex row views.
Bottom almost definately is a bunch of buttons.
You can implement it using ClickableListAdapter.There is also tab implementation.try it.
Just make it using image buttons and put filters in your ListView, or create your own filter form scratch !
I am trying to display 2 columns of text in a GridView in android. I create a TextView for each cell of the grid. Everything seems to work well until the TextView tries to wrap the text to a second (or more) line. When this happens, sometimes the second line of text overwrites the next cell, rather than causing the cell to expand to fit the text. All I have to do to get the text to display properly is click one of the cells in the grid. This seems to cause the grid to repaint and then everything gets displayed properly. I have tried any number of things to fix this problem but nothing seems to help.
Is there some property that I have to set on the TextView or the GridView to allow the cells to expand to fit the text? Or is this just a glitch in GridView that I have to live with?
BTW, setting android:singleLine="true" prevents the word wrap and solves the problem but it isn't an ideal solution because I really don't want the text to be truncated.
At a quick glance, I'm afraid you might have to do a work-around. I know it seems like a glitch, but it may be more ideal to continue to have your views start a consistent location instead of constantly having them shift based on content. I know this is a pain for what you're trying to do, but keep in mind that this was designed for hopefully the best solution for any application. Anyway..
One workaround I would propose might be manually updating the beginning of the views that get written over. I know it's not exactly ideal, but you can figure out where to place it based on the properties of your view. This doesn't feel like a particularly elegant solution though, so I'll try to cook something better up and/or post sample code. Good Luck!