Styling Android

In Scrolling Table – Part 1 we looked at a technique for getting a scrolling table with a static header row by using two tables and hiding content in each. In this part we’ll look at a more efficient approach to the same problem.
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I recently had a requirement to create a table layout which had a header row at the top. On the face of it this is relatively easy using TableLayout, but there was a further requirement: The header row should remain static while the data rows scroll. The problem here is that the standard TableLayout does not support a scrolling body area, so how can we achieve this?
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Important note: There is a more recent article which covers a newer version of ViewPagerIndicator. Please refer to this in conjunction with this article

At the end of part 2 of this series, we had added ListView controls to each of our ViewPager views, but we lost the scroll position when we moved away from the view. Let’s look at how we can implement the scroll state persistence.
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Important note: There is a more recent article which covers a newer version of ViewPagerIndicator. Please refer to this in conjunction with this article

In the part 1 we got a simple ViewPager working with a TitlePageIndictor. This gave us some pretty impressive results for a relatively small amount of effort. But, given that this blog is focussed on making things look good, what about if you want to change things? (more…)

Important note: There is a more recent article which covers a newer version of ViewPagerIndicator. Please refer to this in conjunction with this article

Richard Hyndman recently wrote on his personal blog and the Android Developers blog about the ViewPager functionality which has been added to the Android Compatibility Library. Jake Wharton has published his ViewPagerIndicator which works in conjunction with ViewPager and gives some pretty slick behaviour for surprisingly little effort. In this article, we’ll have a look at how to use both of these in a project.

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