On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:58 AM, TjerkW <[email protected]> wrote: > I basically want a widget which has a simlar layout as the twitter > widget like this > > [AUTHOR] [TWEET text bla bla > bla balb albalbalbal bla bla] > > As you can see the tweet text nicely wraps around the AUTHOR element. > This can be done with one TextView using the following method: > http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/faq/commontasks.html#selectingtext > > The problem is that its a widget and i only have access to the ui > elements using the RemoteViews: > http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/RemoteViews.html > > I was thinking of using a layout manager for this, but its impossible > because textviews are always rectangular. > > So how do i do this?
Step #1: Use string concatenation to put the author and tweet in a single String (or SpannedString created from Html.fromHtml(), or whatever). Step #2: Call setTextViewText() on your RemoteViews -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 3.1 Available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
