Previously in this series we’ve dissected the app that I used for my presentation at AndroidConf Brasil 2011. In this part we’ll look at the final custom control. In order to understand what’s going on, you really need to have read the previous articles in this series as some of the concepts (such as slide…
Category: Layouts
Presenter – Part 3
Previously in this series we’ve looked at the app that I used for my presentation at AndroidConf Brasil 2011. In this part we’ll have a look at the custom controls used to manage the individual slides
Presenter – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series we began our look at the code for the app that I used for my presentation on Android layouts at AndroidConf Brasil 2011. Previously we had begun our look at a custom layout named DisplayLayout which is the layout which holds the slides in the presentation. We’ll continue with…
Presenter – Part 1
On 26th November 2011 I presented a keynote at AndroidConf Brasil about Android layouts. For my presentation, I used a custom Android application running on a Samsung Galaxy 10.1 Tablet instead of the more traditional Powerpoint / KeyNote approach. Instead of publishing my slides following my presentation, I am publishing a “lite” version of this…
GridLayout – Part 2
In the previous article we started looking at the new layout in Ice Cream Sandwich: GridLayout. In this article we’ll continue that by looking at how to make cells span multiple row or columns.
GridLayout – Part 1
In a recent series of articles, we covered he basic layout types supported by Android. Since those articles were written Google have released the Android 4.0 SDK and there is a new addition: GridLayout. In this series of articles we’ll have a look at GridLayout and explore the way it works to get a feel…
Scrolling Table – Part 3
In Scrolling Table – Part 2 we looked at a technique for getting a scrolling table with a static header row by using a custom control to link the column widths of two tables, but there was no support for cells which span multiple columns. In this final part we’ll add column spanning.
Scrolling Table – Part 2
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.
Scrolling Table – Part 1
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…
Layout Types Part 4: FrameLayout
In the previous articles in this series we have looked at LinearLayout, TableLayout, and RelativeLayout. In this concluding part, we’ll look at FrameLayout, which is arguable the simplest of the basic layout types, but can be extremely useful.