I was wondering if there is a simple way to style a ListView along with it's items like the conversation in android's text message app. There are rounded corners and stuff like that, where I'm not sure how I could implement this myself.
I know that I could look for the source code of it, and try to copy from there, but it's a huge app with a lot of files and that's why I decided to ask first.
Thanks in advance,
Jan Oliver
I don't see any rounded corners in the stock sms app...? Either way, rounded corners are quite easy to do with 9-patch png files. Other than that the styling of the sms app is pretty simple. It contains a couple of TextViews, and one QuickContactBadge, a few different background colors, and that's it.
Here is a good place to start https://dl.google.com/googleio/2010/android-world-of-listview-android.pdf
you are basically going to want to use an Adapter to inflate views you make in the xml editor. Once you have more specific questions we can go into more detail.
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I want to create an android style that allows me to put TextViews, pictures, and other elements within the "cards" as demonstrated in the link below. I think that design really adds depth and helps separate content from the background and I'd like to use it in my app. However, I don't know how to create that. If you could help that'd be greatly appreciated! :-)
android card design example
Those TextView just have a custom background. This may be
A 9-patch image
A xml-drawable
I suggest reading on 9-patch drawables and on android drawables in general.
The reason why I think it's a 9-patch is that this "card" has a slight drop shadow.
See if this Library helps you
http://www.androidviews.net/2012/12/cardsui/
I currently got this complex screen to implement the XML code.
I suppose to build with the tablelayout, but i still have no idea how to place the item on the shelf and the wooden background behind that. Could anyone hint me some ways ? Thanks
Set the bitmap as your activity's background drawable. From there, you've got several possibilities. Two that should work are
1) Place transparent Button's on the activity, using an AbsoluteLayout.
2) A couple of people have coded solutions similar to the HTML image map construct, and posted them in public fora. Google "imagemap android" and borrow.
I have googled this, most of the solutions are using:
1.TabHost with customized style which would cover the separate line between each tab to archive the requirement.
2.On the android developers website, there is a article is using Merge layout to put 2 buttons on top of the background image kind of archive what I want.(http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/layout-tricks-merge.html)
3.What about using button but style the looking like the example below? I don't need the selection, cause each item in the menu will be a button, which takes the user to another page.
I am wondering is there any other solutions apart from these two?
This is something want:
I don't need the menu likes a tab which has selected and unselected, they are better like a button always displaying in certain screen(activity).
Thank you.
You can use simple buttons, and provide any custom background for it. For such simple form as on your screenshot look for this link.
But #Janne write right thing - you should be very careful with transplanting controls from another platforms.
This is probably a simple question, but I really have tried searching here and google with no joy.
I can make listview lists by following the many tutorials on the net. The problem is, they always seem to churn out lists that don't seem similar in appearance to the bulk of the lists I see in apps.
For example, I've attached a screenshot of a menu in the Chainfire3D app. It uses the 'standard' blue dividers, white titles and smaller blue 'description' text for the second line. This style of menu/list is used in many of the market apps I have. Feedly is another example.
Every time I create a listview I get either all white text (or text which is themed by whatever I have used in the layout).
Are there 2 line menus, with white and blue text that are easy to create, because I'm having to specify the colours in XML etc if I want them to look this way.
Also, to get two line listviews I have been using a custom adapter and 2 textviews on top of each other in a layout. I tried a 'simple_list_item_2' and that worked but again it didn't take this 'standard' theme. I'm sure I'm missing something.
Anyone know what?
Ideally, can someone share some code with me that will create a 2 item listviews, ideally (if poss) with a suitable adapter that will allow the running of different activities based on menu items presses. Here's hoping you can help.
The easiest way is to customize your layout.
You can find good examples here or here.
I have been looking for a easy way to add borders to custom made Views (Compounds or whatever), and the only answer I found was that there is no built-in support for that. Instead there are suggestions that you should add Views on top/below the View you want borders on and a bunch of others really messy ways to get borders.
Coming from the .NET-environment that is pretty brutal to have to do ugly workaround and "hacks" to get something as simple as borders.
Thus, I want to suggest that feature to the Android team. I'm not sure how they can have missed it, but it is surely missed =)
So, is there any official way to suggest a feature in the SDK/framework? I have looked around a bit, but can't comment on their blogs, no e-mail addresses as far as I can see.
Put your suggestion at google code.
You can easily create a Drawable subclass that draws whatever border you want and reports the padding for that border, and sets it as the background of the view you want to have drawn with a border. Or set it on a FrameLayout to have the border placed around the other views inside of the frame.
sorry, 8 years later. At the link below there's a Feedback section with a link to Feature Requests
https://source.android.com/source/community.html