Hello ViewFrank Xu

Gannon University

Linear Layout Relative Layout Table Layout

Layout

LinearLayout

There is a root LinearLayout ◦ defines its orientation to be vertical—all child View

s (of which it has two) will be stacked vertically. The first child is another LinearLayout 

◦ uses a horizontal orientation The second child is a LinearLayout 

◦ uses a vertical orientation. Each of these nested LinearLayouts contain

◦ several TextView elements, ◦ are oriented with each other in the manner

defined by their parent LinearLayout.

LinearLayout

Relative Layout

Purpose of RelativeLayout RelativeLayout 

◦ is a ViewGroup that displays child View elements in relative positions.

The position of a View can be specified as◦ relative to sibling elements

to the left-of or below a given element◦ in positions relative to the RelativeLayout area

aligned to the bottom, left of center

Table Layout

TableLayout is a ViewGroup that displays child View elements in rows and columns.

Table Layout

HelloGridView

GridView is a ViewGroup that displays items in a two-dimensional, scrollable grid. The grid items are automatically inserted to the layout using a ListAdapter.

In this tutorial, you'll create a grid of image thumbnails. When an item is selected, a toast message will display the position of the image.

Grid View

Fill entire screen

HelloGridView

The GridView is captured from the layout with findViewById(int).

The setAdapter() method then sets a custom adapter (ImageAdapter) as the source for all items to be displayed in the grid. ◦ The ImageAdapter is created in the next step.

To do something when an item in the grid is clicked, the setOnItemClickListener() method is passed a new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener. ◦ This anonymous instance defines the onItemClick() callback

method to show a Toast that displays the index position (zero-based) of the selected item

◦ in a real world scenario, the position could be used to get the full sized image for some other task

How it works?

This class represents the basic building block for user interface components.

A View occupies a rectangular area on the screen and is responsible for drawing and event handling. View is the base class for widgets, which are used to create interactive UI components (buttons, text fields, etc.).

The ViewGroup subclass is the base class for layouts, which are invisible containers that hold other Views (or other ViewGroups) and define their layout properties.

What is a View/Group View?

The first method necessary is getView(). This method creates a new View for each image added to the ImageAdapter. When this is called, a View is passed in, which is normally a recycled object (at

least after this has been called once), so there's a check to see if the object is null. If it is null, an ImageView is instantiated and configured with desired properties for the image presentation

getView()

Image View

Init ImageView setLayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams) sets the height and width

for the View—this ensures that, no matter the size of the drawable, each image is resized and cropped to fit in these dimensions, as appropriate.

setScaleType(ImageView.ScaleType) declares that images should be cropped toward the center (if necessary).

setPadding(int, int, int, int) defines the padding for all sides. (Note that, if the images have different aspect-ratios, then less padding will cause for more cropping of the image if it does not match the dimensions given to the ImageView.)

Toast

HelloTabWidget

Create three separate Activities Start a new project named HelloTabWidget. Create three separate Activity classes in

your project:◦ ArtistsActivity, ◦ AlbumsActivity, and ◦ SongsActivity.

These will each represent a separate tab. For now, make each one display a simple message using a TextView.

This doesn't use a layout file. Just create a TextView, give it some text and set that as the content.

Register activities

Three of the core components of an application — activities, services, and broadcast receivers — are activated through messages, called intents.

Intent messaging is a facility for late run-time binding between components in the same or different applications. 

The intent itself, an Intent object, is a passive data structure holding an abstract description of an operation to be performed

Opt- intents

To inform the system which implicit intents they can handle

Activities, services, and broadcast receivers can have one or more intent filters.

Each filter describes a capability of the component, a set of intents that the component is willing to receive.

Opt - Intent filters

 Icon and xml file for each tab the selected icon to be a dark color (grey) the unselected icon to be a light color (white)

UI- main.xml

The TabHost requires◦ a TabWidget ◦ a FrameLayout ◦ a vertical LinearLayout

The FrameLayout is where the content for each tab goes, ◦ which is empty now ◦ because the TabHost will automatically embed eachActivity

 within it TabWidget and the FrameLayout elements have the

IDs tabs and tabcontent, respectively. ◦ These names must be used so that the TabHost can retrieve

references to each of them. It expects exactly these names

TabHost

TabHost.TabSpec

newTabSpec(String tag)Get a new TabHost.TabSpec associated with this tab host.

ListView

list_item.xml Start a new project named HelloListView. Create an XML file named list_item.xml and

save it inside the res/layout/ folder.

This file defines the layout for each item that will be placed in the ListView.

HelloListView.java

setListAdapter(ListAdapter) automatically adds a ListView to fill the entire screen of the ListActivity.

This method takes ◦ an ArrayAdapter, which manages the array of list

items that will be placed into the ListView. The ArrayAdapter constructor takes

◦ the application Context, ◦ the layout description for each list item (created in

the previous step), and ◦ a List of objects to insert in the ListView (defined

next).

setListAdapter

The setTextFilterEnabled(boolean) method turns on text filtering for the ListView, so that when the user begins typing, the list will be filtered.

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