I am currently developing an android app that displays a list view. When an item from the list view is selected I would like a small window to appear from the bottom of the screen. This window will not cover the entire list view, but take up a small portion of the bottom. On this window will be a few buttons and a progress bar.
My question is would the best way to achieve this be through a popupwindow or is there something else to better suit this?
Thank you for your help.
you could use a Dialog with a custom View (Android Custom Dialog example). Or you can forgo the concept of the pop-up and just "fake it" by adding your "pop-up" View into your normal layout but setting it as invisible. Then when you want to show it make it Visible and populate it with the appropriate data.
I think I understood what you meant. Do you use ActionBarSherkock? If yes, then there is a splitactionbar which is ususally located on the bottom of the screen, when the screen is small. It looks like this:
http://wptrafficanalyzer.in/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/actionbar_menu_sherlock_splitactionbar.png
Is this what you meant? Let me please know.
Edit:
There is something called quick actions. This handels popups very well, but its not displayed on the bottom of the screen tough. But you might want to look at it:
http://londatiga.net/images/quickactions/quickcontact.jpg
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One activity in my app looks like below picture. In the below picture ,can any one suggest that best way to implement view,
view in my app
and when i click one of the options(filters in app) available on activity,
the view will be extended like below
view after one of the option selected
For this, i want to use a horizontal linear layout for below options bar,
when one of the options clicked, i wanna use slide up functionality and views show and hide functionalities.
can any one suggest better design for this . thanks.
I think for most apps, all toolbars should stay in the same place throughout the execution of the app. When the toolbar item ("Veg & Non Veg") is clicked, the filter should appear above the toolbar instead of below it. You can still use the slide up function, just have the toolbar layout displayed above (higher z-index) the filter linear layout.
You should also standardize the sizes for the distances/times to each location, personally I think the first one looks better.
Other than that, I think your UI looks pretty good!
Can you please tell me how to make this type of pop up? I do not need to design own component in drawable. I don't have much knowledge in Android.
1) First there is Title with blue background .
2) Second there is scrolling list view (without image) and buy button (without image).
Is it possible?
I Googled it to find out if we can make own button like that with some style?
Here is my image
You have to use a Dialog/Pop up in combination with a ListView you have to google that up because its a complex theme.
good look
Start from http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/dialogs.html. You have to implement your own custom dialog layout, likely using a ListView (http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/layout/listview.html).
I'm developing an app that includes reviews of items and due to my design, I want to only show all the reviews in a popup window like in Google Play Store:
What should I use to create that white panel that appears over the current window and contains the necessary information? This should be simple but I'm a newbie and I can't seem to figure out what this "widget" is. Please help me if you are familiar with this so I can use this cool design pattern. Thanks.
It seems you want to display a layout as a popup in another activity.
If you want to do this using an Activity instead of a Dialog, you can do this by setting the activity's theme to android:theme="#android:style/Theme.Dialog" in the manifest - this will make the activity appear like a dialog (floating on top of whatever was underneath it).
A better way to do it would be using a DialogFragment. You can display information in the form of a popup and it will have its own lifecycle. That will be much better than displaying an activity like a dialog
Ram kiran's answer is a good one and one which I like to give also. But just so you have another option to look at you can consider PopupWindow
As stated in the docs, it is
A popup window that can be used to display an arbitrary view. The popup window is a floating container that appears on top of the current activity.
I've used this and it works out nicely in some situations. It really depends on what your exact needs are as to which will work best for you.
After seeing the last screenshots of new foursquare application and their balloon like cartoon instructions, I'd like to create some of these in my application.
I found a similar question for iPhone
Small popup for instructions... How?
Here is another screenshot of foursquare app:
I'd like to know how I could achieve that with Android.
Thanks in advance for any help.
UPDATE: This is what I could get so far but adding some buttons with a custom drawn background and layering them with a FrameLayout:
But I still couldn't get the triangle effect. Maybe there is something I can do with my custom background shape?
UPDATE2
After checking your suggestions, I decided to go with Aaron C idea and added an image with an arrow on it. This is my current result:
Thank you Snailer, QuickAction API project seems very much promissing. I'll check it out when implementing more features in my app.
Now, I just need to get the right color or maybe I could just let it this way. It seems nice too.
And, so, to summarize what I did:
Got my initial xml layout inside a FrameView.
As I'm using a frameview, everything I put in here will be piled one over the other. That's how I could add things to the layout.
In that framelayout, I put 2 relativelayouts whith an image with the triangle and a button to create the two upper popups. In the bottom I put a button only.
That's it. I hope it helps somebody.
Thank you very much again for all your help!
That sounds like a neat thing to implement. There might be a built-in Android variation on AlertDialog that achieves this, but if not here is how I would go about implementing it:
Create a new Activity whose background is black with a very high (low?) alpha color value. This will allow you to see through it to the previous Activity in the stack. Then, add your alert at whatever coordinates you like using a relative layout with padding values.
You might also want to add a touch listener that exits the Activity if the user touches the balloon (or maybe anywhere in the screen).
If you want to be fancy with coordinate placement of the balloon, you can pass this information into the new Activity using the Activity's launch Intent with the putExtra() methods.
It's probably achieved through skinning a toast.
The developer documentation shows a skinned toast in "Creating a custom toast view" at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/toasts.html
You may want to look at the QuickAction API. It acheives this by using PopupWindow, skinned, positioned, and animated.
Ok so I'm trying to figured out how i can make a menu similar to a drop down menu, but it goes up instead of down. I'm wanting something similar to This. It would mean I would be creating a list-view. But I'm not sure how it would all work, since I'm using Image-buttons I made in Photoshop. It has to possible since adobe has pretty much done it. But my questions is how? Thank you in advanced.
I guess this is a standard ToggleButton with a background selector that is transparent when not activated and with a transparent black one when active. When the ToggleButton gets pressed, a PopupWindow will be displayed below. The content of this window should be a standard ViewGroup/layout that was passed to that window (transparent black background with a few clickable TextViews basically)