I want to have an static bottom menu bar exist through out the applications in every page visible at bottom all the time. I have designed the menu bar but i am confused whether i have to integrate the menu code with every layout xmls to make menu visible in every page and write the code in every activity class to perform functions on menu clicks. Or if there is any other way i can create a common bottom bar that lies with every page with writing the code of menu in a single activity class.
Well the best way in my opinion , is to create a bottom bar xml file , and include it in every Activity's xml file
<include android:layout_width="fill_parent" layout="#layout/bottom_bar" />
where your bottom bar xml file name is bottom_bar.xml
This article also might help you
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/02/android-layout-tricks-2-reusing-layouts.html
There is also the include route:
Common layout in all tabs
What you are probably looking for is one Activity with a TabBar with tabs at the top and buttons at the bottom: Android: Tabs at the BOTTOM
Then you can use different Views that correspond to Tabs instead of separate Activities.
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I have implement bottom bar as show below I achieved this using view flipper, its work perfect but when I select any one item to start new activity, its blink because of activity change.
I want to make this bottom-bar behave like as tab in which only tab change and it wont blink activity.
Design a seperate layout with the Bottom images and their behavior (like using selector etc to change state when you click on it ) and add that layout to your Activity XML using
<include> </include> tag
I am looking to create a Nav Bar in my Android application that functions very similar to the Nav Bar used by the Netflix app. There will be 4 buttons aligned horizontally. When one of those buttons is selected, the appropriate activity loads and that button is replaced by an image.
There are multiple ways I can achieve this, but since I am new to programming for Android, I figured I'd ask the community first. I list the first two that come to my head below.
Create a Linear Layout and define a separate layout for each activity. The Layout would include two more linear layouts, a horizontal linear layout for the nav bar and a vertical layout for the content.
Create a custom ui component named nav bar that extends a linear layout (based upon earlier threads I have seen about nav bars on here). Inflate that layout for each activity, then make a framelayout that overlays an image on top of the active button (the button that was just pressed). Then create onButtonClick listeners for each button except for the active button.
I'm not sure if there is a better way to achieve this and I am open to any suggestions. Any feedback would be great.
I'm not sure how the netflix app looks, but you might want to check out ye good olde tab-layout? ( http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-tabwidget.html )
Also be sure to take a look at the android design page: http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-tabwidget.html
i want to set a navigation bar ( with two buttons and a textview ) common for all activities of my application. I know it can be done by including a common layout file into each activity's layout file. But i have to use slide transition animation when a activity changes to another. Now if i follow the common layout file including process, then the navigation bar will also slide in or out with the activity's view where i want my navigation bar to be fixed when activities view slides in or out. Besides, the two buttons of the navigation bar should be set as i can hide them by using code to some activities. So now i need help badly on the problem, please give me a solution/suggestion/clue on the problem.Thanks in advance .....
Perhaps Fragments may be what you are looking for in this scenario.
Or thinking about it further maybe ViewFlipper with multiple layouts could also help in this case.
I have created custom component with a Button Bar on the Bottom of
the screen and a Title and status bar on the top of the screen. I want
to include this custom component in every one of my Activities. Now,
in a any given activity, how do I go about adding content on the
screen (say a button in the middle of the screen) in a addition to my
custom component thats ever present?
How about adding a base layout with can contain the header and footer that you use everywhere and then have a stub in the middle that you can inflate with whatever you like?
I think that will solve your problem.
You can read about ViewStub here:
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/03/android-layout-tricks-3-optimize-with.html
Initially I have 3 screens in a tab bar...but when I navigate from any of these activities to any other activity the tab bar disappears...I want this tab bar to appear even on that screen...How to do that??
You could put your tabbar code into a separate XML file (say, tabbar.xml) and use
<include layout="tabbar" />
in each of the layout files.
Then, you would need to set it up in your Activities onStart methods.