Like on the following screen. It looks less than standard size. And without vertical lines between icons.
This is most likely not a tab control at all. You can simply use Buttons or even better styled RadioButtons for pseudo tabs and then use ViewFlipper to display sequence of cards based on which button was clicked
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I would like to have in my activity the widget like this in the top of that screen. I do not think about clock, but about that 5 balls, and I want to use it the same way - when I change screen then white ball is changing too. I was looking for information about it on Android Developer but I can't found any tips. What type of widget I have to use or do I have to write all code for this from zero?
It calls ViewPagerIndicator
here is https://github.com/bigsolom/AndroidViewPagerIndicator
custom ViewPager indicator the mimics nexus-5 launcher style (small circles and the selected page is a bigger circle)
hope that will be helpful
Android provides the SlidingDrawer by default looks like below image -
Image http://www.gru.at/android/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/s_open.png
Can we customize this SlidingDrawer looks like semi-circle type with buttons included. For, example take a look at below image -
Anyone done the SlidingDrawer like above one. I've googled it. Didn't get any nice solution for this. Anyone has idea/example blog for this?
So make sure you have Gimp and 9-Patch at the ready for a lot of trial and error...
Then what you wanna do is...
Add suitable layout to hold buttons where the current ImageView Handle is, like Horizontal LinearLayout or RelativeLayout
Cut the id of the current ImageView Handle and add it to this new Layout you just added
add your buttons to the LinearLayout/RelativeLayout (you can test it now, the buttons and the handle should all slide open at the same time)
Now add Button listeners for each of the buttons
Set the SlidingDrawer to android:allowSingleTap = "false" (tit for tat, you cant have the single tap option anymore, just the slide)
Use a ButtonSelector.xml to have different layouts for buttons be pressed or not pressed.
This is the hard part. Edit the drawables for the buttons, and handle so that they will fit together nicely if the screen is huge, small, landscape, portrait. I recommend using 9-Patch in conjunction with Gimp.
Pat yourself on the back because you now have a totally sweet custom sliding drawer.
Make sure you post pictures and state any problems or issues you ran into as I have never fully implemented this, but I did get to step 6 to make sure it was possible.
Last but not least, Good Luck...
Thanks for RelativeLayout and FrameLayout These layouts makes my requirement comportable with what i need. I've done like below steps -
First, i've splitted the full image into three pieces. And, merge these images with FrameLayout And, gave onclickListner to my center of image(Because, it was contain that arrow marks up/down)
And, i've used the Animation for just to open that View as SlidingDrawer
These steps helps me lot.
I have a tabhost with tabs and the text is set, I just do not like how they are set by default. The text is centered horizontally, but they gravitate to the bottom vertically. I would like to center them completely and resize the text.
I did not see API calls to do this, insight appreciated
See the answer given by Kocus to my question Controlling Tab colour-state / size in a TabActivity? It covers creating your own custom layouts for the Tabs.
Possibly more than you need as I was looking to do more than just text position and size but it's fairly straight-forward. Also, I haven't found any other way of doing anything with the tabs without using this sort of approach.
I need to create some custom buttons as shown in the image below
what is the best approach to follow?
thanks
Abdul Khaliq
That's a hard one. I made a lot of custom views, and the first thing I would thinking of is, made one Button with that above image, and handle onTouch by yourself so you can distinguish which area the user hit. There you can also change the state of the button, like changing the image to a bevel one e.g. when the left button is hit.
Can you imagine this ansatz?
You can place two transparent "invisible" buttons over the top of a background in a LinearView. Like two ImageButtons with a transparent png inside.
It is also possible to make this background animated when buttons are clicked using android animation class.
I am looking for a UI view that imitates the functionality of the
Google Maps directions screen UI control where it allows the user to
pick the type of directions allowed, either Car, Transit or Walking.
Like this --> http://snapplr.com/50rh
The widget is essentially three buttons laid out horizontally with
rounded corners only on the left of the first and right of the thirdbutton.
I can't see a standard way to do this, although it seems like it would
be a common widget. Is there some other standard way of presenting a
multi-choice grouping in a horizontal layout as a "single" layout
object.
I am not aware of a button bar widget in the Android SDK. You would create one with ImageButtons in a LinearLayout, with custom backgrounds for all (to give the gloss-black look, to handle the varied sets of corners, and to handle the selected vs. not imagery). You would then need to add the toggling smarts, such that pushing one makes it selected and makes the others in the layout not selected.
If you wish to stick to simpler existing widgets, Spinner, RadioButton, or ToggleButton would be the most likely candidates.
I don't think there is a built-in way to do it. I can think of two ways to accomplish it. The first would be to create a custom style for the TabWidget. The second would be to create your own custom widget. Making a TabWidget style might be more flexible because you could easily come back and add or remove tabs and it would update accordingly. Making your own custom widget would give you much more control over how the widget looks and acts. So really you need to see what would be the best fit for what you're trying to do.
Best button bar I've found: http://androidworkz.com/2011/02/04/custom-menu-bar-tabs-how-to-hook-the-menu-button-to-showhide-a-custom-tab-bar/
It's thought to be used as a replacement for the menu, but I believe it's also great for a custom button bar. I'm actually gonna integrate it in my app straight away :-)
Kudos for androidworkz, the original author.
I think the power control widget does what you want. Looking at the source for the widget, it uses a combination of LinearLayouts & ImageViews to achieve the layout.
Layout file: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Settings/+/froyo-release/res/layout/widget.xml
Source code: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Settings/+/froyo-release/src/com/android/settings/widget/SettingsAppWidgetProvider.java