[android-developers] Re: TabActivity with scroll
Thanks very much for your ideas folks. Hc - its a cool tabhost you've made! :) Thanks a lot, and I'm sure it will be very useful for a requirement of always fitting in within the screen. Unfortunately, my requirement is such that I do not want to reduce the width of each tab as the number of tabs increases :( Beth - thanks a lot for the suggestion..I'll try it out..it might give a nice look. In the meantime, I've made a tabhost of my own with a ScrollView such that it scrolls when the tabs cover a width more than the page width. Cheers, Priyanka On Dec 8 2009, 7:25 am, hc honch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I made a scrollable tabhost with a scrollview. Made it open source and it's available herehttp://code.google.com/p/mobyfactory-uiwidgets-android On Dec 8, 7:47 am, Beth emez...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Priyanka, You might implement this functionality using a gallery, a list widget that scrolls sideways. In the Gallery adapter, you can set up each Gallery item as a TextView with a CompoundDrawable icon displayed above the text. A visual 'tab' outline could be set into the background of each item in the list. It's just a possibility if you really want more than 3 or 4 tabs. Regards, Beth On Dec 7, 10:53 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: I want to use a TabActivity with 6 or 7 or more tabs. However, I do not want to clutter my screen with so many tabs together. Hence, I'd like to be able to show, say, 3 tabs on the screen, and to be able to scroll to the other tabs. How may I achieve this? The built-in tab system does not support this concept. I recommend using fewer tabs, dividing your functionality into multiple activities. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com Android App Developer Books:http://commonsware.com/books.html- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: TabActivity with scroll
Thanks very much for your ideas folks. Hc - its a cool tabhost you've made! :) Thanks a lot, and I'm sure it will be very useful for a requirement of always fitting in within the screen. Unfortunately, my requirement is such that I do not want to reduce the width of each tab as the number of tabs increases :( Beth - thanks a lot for the suggestion..I'll try it out..it might give a nice look. In the meantime, I've made a tabhost as Mark suggested - such that the fourth tag gives a list of the remaining functionalities, and the user might go to them through this tab. I had made a tabhost which used to scroll when number of tabs occupied a width greater than the screen width, but then the look was not very intuitive(we decided we don't want users to scroll in a tab) - hence we discarded the idea of scrollable tabs. Cheers, Priyanka On Dec 8 2009, 7:25 am, hc honch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I made a scrollable tabhost with a scrollview. Made it open source and it's available herehttp://code.google.com/p/mobyfactory-uiwidgets-android On Dec 8, 7:47 am, Beth emez...@gmail.com wrote: HiPriyanka, You might implement this functionality using a gallery, a list widget that scrolls sideways. In the Gallery adapter, you can set up each Gallery item as a TextView with a CompoundDrawable icon displayed above the text. A visual 'tab' outline could be set into the background of each item in the list. It's just a possibility if you really want more than 3 or 4 tabs. Regards, Beth On Dec 7, 10:53 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: I want to use a TabActivity with 6 or 7 or more tabs. However, I do not want to clutter my screen with so many tabs together. Hence, I'd like to be able to show, say, 3 tabs on the screen, and to be able to scroll to the other tabs. How may I achieve this? The built-in tab system does not support this concept. I recommend using fewer tabs, dividing your functionality into multiple activities. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com Android App Developer Books:http://commonsware.com/books.html- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: TabActivity with scroll
Hi Priyanka, You might implement this functionality using a gallery, a list widget that scrolls sideways. In the Gallery adapter, you can set up each Gallery item as a TextView with a CompoundDrawable icon displayed above the text. A visual 'tab' outline could be set into the background of each item in the list. It's just a possibility if you really want more than 3 or 4 tabs. Regards, Beth On Dec 7, 10:53 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: I want to use a TabActivity with 6 or 7 or more tabs. However, I do not want to clutter my screen with so many tabs together. Hence, I'd like to be able to show, say, 3 tabs on the screen, and to be able to scroll to the other tabs. How may I achieve this? The built-in tab system does not support this concept. I recommend using fewer tabs, dividing your functionality into multiple activities. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com Android App Developer Books:http://commonsware.com/books.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: TabActivity with scroll
Hi guys, I made a scrollable tabhost with a scrollview. Made it open source and it's available here http://code.google.com/p/mobyfactory-uiwidgets-android On Dec 8, 7:47 am, Beth emez...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Priyanka, You might implement this functionality using a gallery, a list widget that scrolls sideways. In the Gallery adapter, you can set up each Gallery item as a TextView with a CompoundDrawable icon displayed above the text. A visual 'tab' outline could be set into the background of each item in the list. It's just a possibility if you really want more than 3 or 4 tabs. Regards, Beth On Dec 7, 10:53 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: I want to use a TabActivity with 6 or 7 or more tabs. However, I do not want to clutter my screen with so many tabs together. Hence, I'd like to be able to show, say, 3 tabs on the screen, and to be able to scroll to the other tabs. How may I achieve this? The built-in tab system does not support this concept. I recommend using fewer tabs, dividing your functionality into multiple activities. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com Android App Developer Books:http://commonsware.com/books.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
