GridView in android - android

I have a gridview of images in android. When i click any item on it, i want to show a new set of items over it. This is the screen shot .
Can this be done using gridview? Also what should be the type of view which must come over the gridview? The background should become preferably faded.

I am not so sure if you can achieve the second view using a grid view. In the grid view AFAIK you don't have any option of specifying the location of the grid elements. It just arranges it from left to right and wraps around.
But here is how I would do it -
First view can be done using the grid
view, as you already know/done.
For the second view since you want the the first view to remain in the background, there are two ways to go about this -
First option
You can use a dialog, you can create your own custom dialog which has makes it translucent.
In this custom dialog you can add further elements like images.Custom dialog example. For details on how to make it translucent you can look the sample app in android sdk.
Second option -
Use a layoutInflater. Put all your views into it.
You can display one view on top of another using the visibility attribute of the view. Layout Inflater

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ListView v/s an inflated view added on another view

Suppose i want to make a view like as given below image
Is it efficient to have a custom list-view for this or a simple linear layout with elements which can be inflated and added to another layout. I do not want to have any click operation over the items, i just need to show them over a screen. Which one will be better approach?
I already know how to make Custom ListViews

Android list screen custom background

I've a screen with the following layout
Also I've a list view
How can i bring a box like background (similar to first screen) for the list view
out may look like
Is it possible to do with ListView? any suggestions, i can post the code for the current layouts if necessary
Put your list in a layout.. set the background and add padding ... for list listview again put up background.

how to design this UI

I am trying to design a UI as like in an iPhone app. The image of the design is as follows
In the above image all the white boxes are of a list view. In those list view i am placing an image View and two set of text view. I have placed a overall custom list view and in that custom list view using relative layout i have place the image view and two text view.
now i want to draw a line between the two text view and when i click on the second text view i am moving to a new activity. At that time i want to show that only the second text view is been clicked.
Use a RelativeLayout:
The image android:layout_alignParenLeftt="true"
the first two textViews android:layout_toRightOf="#id/myimage",
the other textviews below the previous ones (e.g. android:layout_below="#id/author" and with a layout_width="fill_parent"
Check Romain Guy's blog post for a tutorial on a similar (simpler) setup: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/02/android-layout-tricks-1.html
Check this http://www.androidsnippets.com/clickable-listview-items
The ClickableListAdapter bases on the
API-Demo-Example "Efficient List
Adapter". It was refactored to provide
a better reusability. Additionally,
you can connect OnClickListener and/or
OnLongClickListener to each View of
your list item. This allows you to
create complex interactive lists, or
simply using a customized checkbox
version.
I had implemented this in a project minus the image view. Heres a screenshot.

Android image drag and move from one layout to another

Is it possible to move a ImageView from one layout to another. If i move an image from one layout to another i get an exception "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Given view not a child of xyz layout"
If i long press on a application icon, the app is moved from app list view to workspace. How does the launcher do this. How is it able to move the app icon from one layout to another layout ?
I would think of it differently. Instead of moving the actual view object, your layouts should be able to create and remove the same type of view based on the data that the view represents. It sounds like you're doing a regular drag/drop from one layout to another. When the drop occurs in the new layout, this layout should be aware of the data that is dropped and be able to create a new view based on this data. The original layout should be aware that it has lost this data, and remove the original view. Thinking in terms of the data that the view represents instead of the view object itself is probably the way to go here.

Creating autohide custom view in android

I am working on creating a custom view in android. I want to create an autohide custom view control.
This control will be holding other UI elements mostly buttons or icons. It has a small button which is mandatory, clicking which will slide the control in or out thus changing its visibility.
one should be able to add other buttons or icons to this control
The control can be placed only at the borders, which needs to be specified while creating the view.
I don't know how to start with it
Should I be extending the View class or ViewGroup class.
have a look at this
and then you have to add a dynamic layout to this drawer
I used a RelativeLayout and added a Button to the View.
When I call expandView() or collapseView(), I call mybutton.setVisibility() and let RelativeLayout know it has changed with this.requestLayout().

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