It's not a hack, its telling the linear layout to do the kind of stuff that it does: reserve no space for that view (height=0), but give it all remaining space (weight=1 and all other views left with the default weight=0). And yes, this is a typical way of building a UI that can deal with different sizes (if you don't already have a list view or some other scrollable container with the bulk of the data). And it's not just different screen sizes: it allows you to resize your UI when the soft keyboard is displayed, when switching between landscape and portrait, etc. A good example to look at is the contacts edit screen.
As of 1.6, there will also be new layouts for different screen sizes, but you need to avoid relying on this for resizing because there is not one resource for every possible size, and even with similar screen sizes being combined the sheer number you would need to do is overwhelming: layout-small layout-small-land layout-normal layout-normal-long layout-normal-land layout-normal-long-land layout-large layout-large-long layout-large-land layout-large-long-land On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Mihai Dumitrache <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > Thanks. I don't know if this is a hack (it looks like at least for > me), but it's cool. > I would ask you if this is how you really build you layout on > android ? using scrollview for stretching views on different screen > sizes, or is there some official guidelines to follow. > Is there some kind of way to create custom layouts for different > screen sizes(qvga, hvga), just like layout and layout-land folders ? > > Thanks again. > > > -- 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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
