The Android Design guidelines suggest using Multi-pane layouts, but as far as actually implementing this there are no examples given. Specifically I'm referring to the dual-pane layout used in conjunction with ViewPager like in the People app shown in the guidelines.
Does anyone have some advice or examples to give on implementing this?
In the screen shot:
You can swipe with ViewPager back and forth between the About and Updates lists or you can tap on the photos to page over. You can see a small part of the Updates tab while viewing whatever you have in the About tab and visa versa. Specifically, I want to know how to create this multi-pane layout. The screen shot is from the People app in Ice Cream Sandwich.
SOLVED:
I ended up creating my own open sourced library for this widget. You can find it at this address:
https://bitbucket.org/adneal/tabcarousellib/wiki/Home
For View Pager first you go through this svn.I have gone through android developer site.If you want multi-pane Layout with out Fragment then it very difficult.I will suggest you to go for the Fragment and achieve your multi-pane layout.
But one i can understand your problem also as Fragment are available from Android 3.0 (API level 11).If you want to target device below this then it became necessity to use View Pager.So you have to work hard to achieve it.
Study this for creating horizontal List View
Try this first If you can Customize it
ViewPager Indicator in android
First of all as I got you want to implement the SplitView in android.
If yes then Use this link to get information of fragments from developer site.
Use this Demo of developer site.
If not getting solution then use this Demo Example : Demo
If still its not what you want then also let me know.
I will like to help you.
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I am developing a native android app and I want to implement a scroll-able menu for selecting a specific level. I know that I can use fragments for this, but there are 15 levels so I have to create many fragments and layouts. I want to achieve this by some thing simple and more manageable.
I have attached the images for better understanding of what I want!
Hope you answer this question soon. Thanks in advance.
You can use ViewPager to achieve that.
I should begin by saying that I'm brand new to android development, although I have a good understanding of the fundamentals of java. That being said, I usually learn best by doing, so I'm writing an app for a campus magazine I work for and trying to learn through the process of making it.
At the top of the screen is a bar with two spinners labeled "issues" and "sections," which allow the user to filter the articles shown to only those in the respective issue / section. The rest of the screen is taken up by what I will describe as a vertically-oriented gallery, which shows the headline for each story underneath an image associated with it. The user can then "flip" through the stories in the magazine by scrolling through the "gallery." Selecting one of the stories will open the full story up in ViewPager.
I have two main questions at this point:
1) Initially, I planned to place the "issues" and "sections" spinners in the ActionBar. However, as I understand it, ActionBars are not displayed to users using Android 2.x. Given that these elements are critical to navigating the app, and that a majority of android users are still using 2.x, this seems unacceptable. As a result, I'm using an ActionBar-less theme and essentially drawing my own action bar via a linear layout on top of my main activity. Am I correct in my understanding that ActionBars do not display on Android 2.x devices? If so, am I correct in including my "tool bar" as a part of the main activity, or is there a better way to implement it? (Perhaps as a fragment? I don't really understand how those fit in yet...).
2) I am aware that the gallery widget is deprecated, so obviously I'm not going to use it. What alternative widgets would best achieve the same visual goal of having the user "flip" through the stories in the magazine by scrolling through the widget? Is there a way to animate a ListView to achieve this goal?
Again, any help - particularly which helps me to understand the wider issues involved here - will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
You can use ActionBarSherlock - it is compatible down to Android v 1.6.
ViewPager might help you
I got stuck with Jake Wharton ViewPagerIndicator.
The problem is that when I try to make a Tab indicator - the result I'm getting is extremely different from what I need and I can't get to style it or make it behave as it should.
So, what I ask for is two things:
1) Am I right when I say that TabIndicator is Foursquare-like ViewPagerIndicator? (when all tabs are shown on screen)
2) Can anyone provide me links to some tutorials or samples of using this type of ViewPagerIndicator, cause samples from JWs' site don't want to get working.
Thanks a lot for your attention!
Jake Wharton provides a lot of examples. Have you checked it?
https://github.com/JakeWharton/Android-ViewPagerIndicator
And you can take a preview installing this apk:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.viewpagerindicator.sample&hl=es
moskis is right on about ViewPagerIndicator. Installing that APK helped me a lot when I first started working with it and it is a great library.
However, to answer the first part of your question and what I think you are asking in general, I think ViewPagerIndicator isn't what you need to solve this specific problem. Foursquare's tabs at the top are the standard Android tabs as shown in http://developer.android.com/design/building-blocks/tabs.html.
Standard Android tabs are implemented using a TabHost and TabWidget. There is an official tutorial about creating a tabbed interface at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/layout/tabs.html
Foursquare achieves a custom look by providing state-list drawables for the tabs and you will probably want to provide your own to get the style that you want for your app.
Note that I don't have access to the Foursquare implementation, but am going off of what I observe whiel using the app. However, I have implemented a tabbed interface for Android in past projects.
I am new to Android and have an app on the Market that I would like to convert to use Fragments so it could take advantage of the tablet in landscape mode and have both activities side by side. All of the examples I can find out there use a listview with a image or text in the right column and uses the FragmentList class. My app has an Activity that has buttons and depending on what buttons or spinners they select it then displays another activity. Can anyone recommend a tutorial or article on how to do this? I have read the Google blog but found it confusing and wasn't sure how to use it to modify my existing code. Any help would be appreciated.
This is a good tutorial http://portabledroid.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/programmatic-and-layout-fragments/
The new Youtube app, and the newer version of JuiceDefender, contains a sliding tabbed layout similar to those seen in Windows 7 Phone. This is a UI feature I would like to include in an app I'm am designing but I cannot find any information or tutorials online. Has anyone seen a tutorial on this?
I believe it's implemented as a HorizontalScrollView containing a TabWidget with custom, fixed-width, tab indicator views.
Now, getting the tab content views to be paged horizontally is less easy, and that requires something like adapting Workspace.java in the Launcher.git project in AOSP.
I have found the answer to this question. The Sliding layout I described is a ViewPager, available from the Android Compatibility Package v4, which is available from the SDK installer.
A tutorial for this can be found here :http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android/android-user-interface-design-horizontal-view-paging/
Edit
An improvement over the Android Compatibility package is the http://actionbarsherlock.com/ an improvement over the support package that adds more Jelly bean style stuff.
I haven't seen a tutorial like this, but you won't be able to do something like this with just the native widgets as they are. You're really looking at implementing your own custom widgets and views, or at the very least wrapping the included widgets with your own code. Maybe a future api will have such features built in, but at this point you're forced to do everything yourself if you want such an interface.