Apologies to Stakka the original poster, looks like I hijacked a thread unintentionally (replying to an email and changing subject rather than creating a new email doesn't create a new Thread on this group).
On 20 Oct 2010, at 13:39, Richard Leggett wrote: > 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
