The existing API is SlidingDrawer. If that's not what you want, you'll have to write your own. The "workspace" in Home is a custom view with custom layouts inside.
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Parakoos <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are two inflexibilities with the SlidingDrawer which is why I'm > not keen on using it, cool as it is. The first is the inability to > have more than one drawer. (ok, I could have one on the bottom and one > on the left, but it's not what I'm looking for) I have found a place > in my UI where multiple drawers would have been great. I won't go into > details, it's an application specific thing) The effect I was hoping > for was that of having two or three handlers at the top, like tabs, > which could be pulled down to reveal further information. And that > brings me to the second point. 2) Sliding drawers can only be placed > at the bottom or the right hand side. Unfortunately, I'm looking for a > vertical drawer coming down from the top. (at the bottom I've got a > row of buttons and I don't want the user to fear pressing the wrong > thing) > > But, SlidingDrawer aside, the best effect I could have for the app I'm > creating is the Launcher with the neat drag multiple 'desktops' into > view from the left or right. I guess I could copy the code, both of > the Launcher and SlidingDrawer, and modify, but I'd much rather use > the existing API if I could. Any ideas at all? > > On May 27, 12:21 am, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote: >> SlidingDrawer is part of the framework in Android 1.5. Why do you need >> several drawers? >> >> >> >> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Copy the SlidingDrawer code into your app and modify it to work how you >> > want. Just be sure to put them in your own package so they don't conflict >> > with the platform. >> >> > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Parakoos <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Hello, >> >> >> Is there an easy way to imitate the Launcher look and feel? I mean >> >> having three full screen views which can be switched between by >> >> sliding/dragging right or left. >> >> >> I had a look at the source code to see how it was done and found that >> >> the magic is done in the "com.android.launcher" package. I take it >> >> that it is inadvisable to use the same classes as those in that >> >> package due to them not being part of the official SDK and therefore >> >> up for change at any point? >> >> >> If so, is there a good way to get a similar effect from the official >> >> SDK? The SlidingDrawer would have given me what I needed if it was >> >> possible to have more than one defined, but that seems to not be >> >> supported. (the handles stack on top of each other) >> >> >> So you know what problem I'm trying to solve, here is some background: >> >> I've got the an application which shows a photo. I want to maximize >> >> the viewing area of the photo so it takes up most of the screen. At >> >> the same time I'd like the user to easily be able to bring into view >> >> the metadata of the photo. That is where I wanted the 'slide android >> >> view into view' functionality similar to that found in the Launcher >> >> and/or the SlidingDrawer. >> >> >> Thanks for any help. >> >> >> Gustav >> >> > -- >> > Dianne Hackborn >> > Android framework engineer >> > [email protected] >> >> > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to >> > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such >> > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and >> > answer them. >> >> -- >> Romain Guy >> Android framework engineer >> [email protected] >> >> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time >> to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on >> public forums, where I and others can see and answer them > > > -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
