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
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I'm porting one of my iOS apps over to Android (which I'm pretty new to), and I was wondering how I would draw this shape in Android using XML:
I want to recreate the shape (the white object) at the bottom of a tableView. The image attached is a screenshot of the bottom of a UITableView.
Any help would be greatly appreciated if you need any more info just let me know.
Thanks
EDIT:
Sorry I wasn't totally clear, I'm actually trying to recreate the slight arch at the bottom of the table. Since it's so slight, you may not be able to see it with a quick glance.
It seams to me that you want to "lift" your table up a little bit. If so, you have to implement this attribute to your tableView:
android:elevation="2dp"
or in java:
tableview.setElevation(2);
My opinion when reading this question: Stop trying to make your android apps look like iOS apps !!!
If you still want to do it.
Just have the background color for your activity to that color and set the layout_margin to either 2 or 4.
It should give you your desired effect.
Has anyone managed to bring the items in a V4 PagerTabStrip together, more like Google Play Store?
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/view/PagerTabStrip.html
This is what I want:
This is what i get (the space between segments):
These images are not mine but its just to explain what I mean.
Additionally the underline for the Strip, is it possible to have a different color then the selected item underline (v4).
Thanks
Edit: For all those asking if I ever found a solution, I never did. Sorry :-(
I'm also searching the answers to this questions and it seems not exist the api to do such thing in android-support-v4. But as an alternative, we can try this https://github.com/xiaopansky/PagerSlidingTabStrip . Not a perfect but time-saving solution.
So it's been a while on this topic but I believe there are people still searching for this answer so I wanted to put here what I've found.
https://developer.android.com/samples/SlidingTabsBasic/src/com.example.android.common/view/SlidingTabStrip.html
On Android's developer website, they have sample code on how to accomplish it yourself. I personally haven't tested it yet so not sure if it supports that exact look and feel or whether it supports customization but at least the code is there for yourself and you can play around with it. I'd really wish that v4 PagerTitleStrip and PagerTabStrip supported the above features by default.
The default PagerTitleStrip has only 3 textviews initialized. So if You wish to remove spacing create a custom PagerTitleStrip class and add more textviews so that space is reduced.
Im trying to get the same result as new google maps, when you "tap" on any "marker" you get a little layout in bottom of the screen, all the info about the srteet view and other details shown there, when you hold and move your finger to top of the screen the layout moves and c over all screen or half of the screen. i was thinking use slidingDrawer but seems google depreceate this method on api 17. so how i can achieve this?
Im attaching the image of example:
you could look into using this SlidingUpPanel which appears to be exactly what you are looking for
Now from with Android Support Library 23.2 we can use Design Support Library: Bottom Sheets
Something that might be worth looking into is the answer to this question.
More specifically the answer that links here.
Basically the idea is that They realized that the sliding drawer left some things to be desired and they created a custom component with similar functionality. This will give you more freedom and a way around using deprecated classes. Let me know in comments if there's anything else that would be helpful to know.
Happy coding!
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 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.