On 1st April 2015 I published a joke app to Google Play named Dirty Phrasebook which is based upon Monty Python’s Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook sketch. I this series of articles we’ll take a look in to the code (which will be open-sourced along with the final article). In this article we’ll continue looking at the…
Category: ArrayAdapter
Navigation Drawer – Part 1
As I am writing this it is Google I/O week 2013. Amongst the new releases this week is a new version of the v4 support library (release 13) which contains support for the Navigation Drawer pattern. This pattern steadily grown in popularity, but until this point there has been no official support and guidelines from…
Adapters – Part 4
In the previous article we looked at getting our ListView scrolling smooth by optimising the operations that we are performing in the getView() method of our Adapter. In this article we’ll look at adding images to each ListView item and consider the performance implications of doing that.
Adapters – Part 3
In the previous article we got an ArrayAdapter and a slightly more complex SimpleAdapter working, but suggested that we could also achieve the same result as the SimpleAdapter using an ArrayAdapter. In this article we’ll look at how to do this, but also explore some performance issues which we need to be aware of when…
Adapters – Part 2
In the previous article we began our look at Adapters by connecting up the List Navigation Spinner in our ActionBar. In this article we’ll look at applying an Adapter to a ListView.
Adapters – Part 1
In the past on Styling Android we have covered a variety of topics which make use of Adapters. In the series’ on ListView, ViewPager and ActionBar (to name but a few) we’ve used Adapters but kept the Adapter implementation really simple so that we may focus on the subject in question. However, on a few…