Change the number of columns in GridView With Zoom / Pinch - android

In my application I implemented a Gallery like view using GridView. I want to change the number of columns in GridView manually as per user's choice. I can change it by providing any button or menu option. I want to do same thing with Zoom / Pinch operation like, if some one tries to zoom the GridView, it should reduce the number of columns and increase the same if tries to Pinch. To achieve this I tried overriding onTouch event but its neither smooth nor as desired. If any one knows or have any idea of how to achieve this please let me know.

This won't be easy.
First I would try this:
Put a plain View on top of the GridView (i.e. this View is at the same position as GridView and has the same width and height).
Override the onTouchEvent of this plain View. If you detect a Pinch Zoom do the special handling (changing the GridView's columns). If you don't detect a Pinch Zoom, let the onTouchEvent return false (not handled) letting the touch-events bubble down to the underlying GridView.
The trick is in recognizing a Pinch Zoom correctly and not messing up the default touch behavior of the GridView.

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Panning a layout with imageviews on it

I have been puzzled by how to approach this for a while. I have Framelayout with over 20 image views on it. I want to be able to pan the framelayout. Basically, touching and dragging causes the background image to pan (and the 20 image views to move along).
This is similar to what strategy games do (you have map and buildings).
I read all about panning and zooming and they all talking about doing this for single imageview. In my case, not only it is a layout but also it has other views.
How do I approach this? Any pointers ?
Thanks
I have a github project for zooming and panning although its for View Groups it would be easy to change for a View.
Check it out let me know if you have a question it is unfinished but works.
https://github.com/Xjasz/AndroidZoomableViewGroup
Copy the class and extends FrameLayout instead of ListView.
Then make sure in your XML to use the class instead of a FrameLayout.
You could have a TouchInterceptor/Custom view where on touch, you offset the view from its parent by the delta of the current touch coords from the last touch coords.

How to pinch zoom in/out and pan around in LinearLayout in android?

In my android app, I have a linearlayout where I put many linearlayouts with images in it. It will go past the screen border horizontally and vertically.
I want the user to pinch zoom in or out and pan around. I tried putting it in a horizontal scroll and vertical scroll, but it wont let me zoom, and I can only move in 1 direction at 1 time, like it wont let me move diagonally.
I tried this plugin
https://code.google.com/p/android-zoom-view/downloads/list
But it won't let me pan around. It only lets me do it on the stuff thats visible on the screen...
Does anyone know how to make this work?
Thanks
The easiest way I can think of is to put your images in HTML and use webview to display it.Webview automatically handles zooming and panning of content.

Pinch Zoom gridview

I'd like to implement a GridView with Pinch Zoom. for example, if we zoom on an area the number of cells will decrease.
I'm trying to do this with a GridView because each cell should be clickable for doing a different action.
Is there any interface I need to implement? Is it possible to get this result with an ImageView? How would you do it? Code would be appreciated.

android MotionEvent when finger enter or leaves view

I wan't to develop game named "Balda".
I have a 2d grid of imageviews (or buttons, maybe).
User should be able move his finger on the grid, and app should know wich images in grid was touched in this move.So, in the picture below is what I'm trying to achieve. A - is start point where user pressed on screen. B is end point where finger leaves the screen. And I need to know what images were touched (There are blue in the picture).
I know that I can do something like this. But I think that this is a wrong solution, because It contradicts the principle of giving functionality by responsibilitys.
I think that it is responsibility of the imageView to know when finger enters its borders and when it is leaving its borders.
I thought, that this would be in android API. And it has MotionEvent like EVENT_HOVER_ENTER and EVENT_HOVER_LEAVE but it's not working with finger. After finger is pressed on some View it will recieve all other MotionEvents, if I get it right.
I think that this is wrong. What can I do to get this functionality? Maybe I could create some custom listeners and custom Views, that supports them?
I think your requirement is slightly similar to custom gridview.
You can try below steps-
1)Create Custom view
2)Attach TouchListener to it.
3)Divide this view into 4*3 matrix.
4)Map your images to this 4*3 matrix
5)Write a function which gives the cell number respective toTouched Co-ordinates
6)After getting cell number;get the mapped image for that cell number
7)Put this image in arraylist
8)When user lifts his finger you will get arraylist of touched images(do whatever you want with it).
9)Remember to put this custom view in your activity
Tell me,if you have any doubt or concern

Endless horizontally scrolling view to draw content dynamically

I want to create the following view / set of views which behave following way:
I have huge set of points which have been stored to DB in web server.
My client application downloads those and should draw curved lines about the data.
What components should I use here to get this "infinite" scrolling view to draw content dynamically.
No snapping wanted, so it should be smooth and can stop to every X position.
Should I proceed with this by using HorizontalScrollView with horizontal LinearLayout and remove/add views based on scrolling, then translate the scrolling position and provide fling that the scrolling doesn't stop suddenly.
Or is just one canvas possible to use and draw the content to simulate the scrolling?
Maybe a horizontally scrolling ListView component?
The solution should be efficient and use minimum of memory.
Which solution do you recommend, or do you have some new ideas other than above?
All suggestions are highly appreciated. Thanks.
There is several possibilities:
Create custom View class and implement GestureDetector there. You can get movement of finger, calculate currently visible area and draw only visible part of content.
May be this solution is not the easiest to implement, but it will be fast and does not require any resources.

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