As far as I have read in the Internet and official documentation, it isn't possible to make a scrollable app widget. Also all my tries failed. I even tried to subclass TextView to implement my own scroll method, but nothing worked.
Are there any ways to achieve that?
Btw.... there are solutions if you use for example htc sense or home desktop ++, but i want to make it available to other users which don't use this
Are there any ways to achieve that?
Not directly. You can always add buttons to rotate you through various options. But true scrolling is not possible.
HTC provides scrollable app widgets because these are built-in. Only their Launcher can create and display them. Regular app widgets do not support scrolling.
As far as I have observed, app widgets are scrollable, but only in the vertical direction.
For Eg. The calendar widget is a scrollable widget which comes with mostly all android phones.
Only the vertical scrolling is allowed for the fact that horizontal scrollings are required to change the screens in the home page.
It is said only 2 gestures are allowed for a widget,
1.Touch
2.Vertical scrolling.
Source : Developer's Page
Now you can make a scrollable widget, but you'll have the problems with images within it. Workaround is described here.
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What is the easiest way to implement a screen slide in Nativescript like shown in Android Viewpager , but in a vertical direction ? Another example of this functionality would be the rss reader feedly where you can change rss feeds by swiping up/down.
The page should allow vertical scrolling to the top/bottom and then transition after a certain treshold.
I already encountered nativescript-slides, which can only do horizontally sliding.
So is there a "nativescript" way or do i have to implement it as native android/ios feature (for example by this) ? In either case a sample on how to integrate it in nativescript would be great.
Update
Recorded an example:
taken from this Repo with Android native code. The outstanding PR made changes to offer vertical scrolling in the list. But the repo seems to be outdated and a bit buggy.
I can provide more info later but there's a new plugin implementing the native controls for android and iOS for slides/carousel her https://github.com/alexrainman/nativescript-carousel-view and vertical swiping is on his radar, I think he might even be close to completing that.
To give an answer for anybody interested in above nested scrolling animation:
For Android I had to implement the native ReyclerView in Nativescript in favor of the NS buildin ListView. It is an optimized view structure which among other things allows nested (vertical) scrolling and can be used as replacement for an ordinary list.
Together with https://github.com/alexrainman/nativescript-carousel-view works like a charm!
Anyone that ends up here still looking for ways to achieve this.
I spent a lot of time trying to figure out a way to achieve this and tried to find ready plugins for this. Also tried to use the plugin from Alexrainman but eventually gave up since the plugin was not up to date with the current nativescript-version.
My solution:
I used radListView as a basis for this implementation and leveraged the methods and events on the radListView.
By using scrolled-event I gathered data for the use of the scrolling feature: scroll Speed and scroll direction. (These might be also taken from the event data, but since I did not find the event details from the Nativescript-documentation I gave up trying to guess where to find this data on the event-model).
Then I also saved the fixed height of one item on my list (The height I fixed to screenHeight-200).
With all this info, I managed to hook the event "ScrollDragEnded" and add logic that makes my list behave like a vertical slider. Moving on the list by method "scrollToIndex" and figuring out which index to scroll and when by leveraging all the data mentioned above.
This is the way I managed to make a pretty good vertical slide.
Good luck!
Friends,
I am trying to develop an application which requires the below UI:
I know its not a feasible thing to run a ListView with-in ListView or with-in a ScrollView. So I'll like to know that Is there any other way to do this same thing ? as the UI has to be same as its running in its LIVE iOS App.
Thanks in advance.
Solution: Thanks guys for all of your answers, but as I told that the Expandable-ListView is not the option in my condition. So I have creating a dynamic layout in Java Class file using an amount of various Layouts & Widget's Array. It took a lot of practice but it covered the necessity.
android-expandable-listview-simple
check this it will help you
You don't really describe your problem in detail but from your indication of a blue bar at the left, I suppose that you want to have some sort of a secondary ScrollView inside the primary ListView; which itself has its one scrolling view. If so, then using an ExpdandableListView will not be the solution that you want.
Android has some difficulties managing a ScrollView inside another ScrollView but if this is what you want, then take a look at: ScrollView Inside ScrollView .
Be warned that these solutions are not perfect and that probably you will never achieve the same level of control for this type of thing on Android as you can have on iOS.
I'd like to make a view in my Android app that flips between multiple views on a swipe/fling. I'd like it to behave more or less like the Android Launcher behaves when flipping between views. In particular,
It should flip views on swipe.
Generally a swipe will flip between one view and the next. It should not fling across all of the views.
If you swipe slowly, you should see the views dragging as you're swiping, eg. the way the Launcher does it.
I tried using a ViewFlipper with a GestureOverlayView as per Romain Guy's blog post here, but there's no indicator to the user as they're swiping. This makes discoverability difficult, which is presumably why Launcher does it the way they do.
I tried using a Gallery object, but when I swipe from left to right, there's a certain amount of momentum that flings the users through all the views rather than just taking them to the next view.
Is there a good way to accomplish what I'm trying to do?
I know this is an old question but ViewPager is created for this exact same purpose. ViewPager is part of android compatibility package and more can be found at http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/08/horizontal-view-swiping-with-viewpager.html
Take a look at HorizontalPager. It's actually based on RealViewSwitcher, which in turn is based on the Android homescreen's code, and supports snap-to paging with drag feedback, as well as nested vertically-scrolling subviews. Gesture support for fast swipes isn't all it should be, but this may get you part of the way there (and I'd welcome contributions back).
EDIT: As of 2012 you're much better off using Google's ViewPager - it's in the compat library.
Check out SwipeView within this project https://github.com/fry15/uk.co.jasonfry.android.tools It does exactly what you want it to do and is super simple to implement.
#CommonsGuy extended ViewFlipper to do it.
https://github.com/commonsguy/cwac-viewswiper
Ihaven't used this one yet so im not sure if it moves with your finger like the launcher if not your going to have to make an OnTochListener to do it for you in me.ACTION_MOVE you will update the view to change its position. I'll post some sample code when I get home if you don't get another answer.
I am making a quiz application in which i am planning to use the SlidingDrawer control for displaying different question numbers. Clicking on a number will allow the user to jump to a specific question.
I have implemented the sliding drawer control but it is able to display only 6-7 buttons inside it depending on the screen size. Trying to add more buttons to it gives an exception.
I tried using a GridView inside the SlidingDrawer but i keep getting an error.
Is there anyway i can have around 20-30 buttons inside the SlidingDrawer control arranged in a grid like manner ?
Please give suggestions on any other way i can implement similar functionality in a way that doesn't take up much screen space ?
Yes, it's possible, as a matter of fact previous Android versions (1.6 if I'm not wrong) implemented the application Launcher that way.
Search the source for that version and you'll have a working sample.
Does anyone know how to achieve the "scroll past top" functionality that you see in some apps (like the HTC Sense email app for example) where when you scroll up to the top of the list and try to scroll up past that, it appears to pull down, and when you release it springs back up?
Take a look at this library: https://github.com/johannilsson/android-pulltorefresh. I think it implements the behavior you are looking for.
As far as I know, there is no built-in way to achieve this look with the default ListViews. Everyone who has done this implemented their own custom ListView widget that supports this functionality.