There's no reason for them to write anything but they are hopefully looking to create the best developer platform.
I am working on this myself, but the whole purpose of the public bug/feature database (and this list) is to make suggestions that may help others in future. On 20 Oct 2010, at 13:32, Mark Murphy wrote: > There is no particular reason why Google needs to write this. Anybody > can write this and make it a reusable component. A knee-jerk reaction > of "if it's lime green, Google must write it" is a sad statement. > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Richard Leggett > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've opened a feature request related to this: >> >> http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=12007 >> >> Again I completely appreciate ListView was designed for efficient scrolling >> through large amounts of data and not for what I need, but we do not yet >> have a good alternative for short (static) lists inside ScrollView that also >> lets us make use of Adapters, selectors, dividers and input device handling, >> without having to re-implement all of these things ourselves. >> >> Example layout: >> >> ScrollView >> Logo >> Top 5 items list >> Save button >> Edit Button >> Delete Button >> Footer >> >> Assume the total height of these controls exceed the dimensions of the >> screen, and so require scrolling. If I use ListView for the list (as I want >> the user to be able to do ListView-like things). Using >> addHeaderView/addFooterView() is not an option here as the background must >> scroll for the design work. >> >> Regards, >> Richard >> >> >> >> On 20 Oct 2010, at 10:40, Richard Leggett wrote: >> >>> Hi Mark, >>> >>> Thanks for your advice. I'd really like to do that as I know that will >>> simplify things, unfortunately the scrolling nature of the background >>> behind the 3 UI widgets is integral to the design (a port of an iPhone app, >>> that had the same challenge as it turns out). >>> >>> Looks like for now I'll have to go one of two routes... >>> >>> 1. Extend ListView to implement background scrolling and use >>> addHeader/FooterView(). >>> 2. Extend LinearLayout to work with a ListAdapter (as this UI strategy is >>> used in several Activities) >>> >>> Many thanks again, >>> Richard >>> >>> >>> On 19 Oct 2010, at 19:11, Mark Murphy wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Richard Leggett >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> I'm keen to see if anyone has a better solution to this problem? >>>> >>>> Get rid of the background. You are taking on a fairly substantial >>>> maintenance headache for the sake of a background image. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) >>>> http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy >>>> http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy >>>> >>>> Android App Developer Books: http://commonsware.com/books >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 >>> >> >> -- >> 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 >> > > > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 3.0.1 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 -- 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
