I'm writing the configuration activity for a game that can have a variable number of players. Players are listed in the activity and can be added and removed dynamically. Users click on players to open a player-details dialog.
The natural way to display the players list is in a ListView, but the activity's layout has to be a ScrollView since it's too big to fit on a screen. Because of that -- because you can't have one scrolling element inside another -- I can't use ListView for the list of players. But I want the list of players to have all the ListView-like behaviors that users expect. Is there an accepted recipe for doing this? I've tried going in two directions, each of which might work but has a ways to go still. First, I tried using a simple LinearLayout, inserting TextViews as players are added and adding a custom divider view in between them so the whole thing looks like a ListView. This lays out correctly, including dynamically resizing as I add/delete players, but doesn't behave like a list w.r.t. details like showing focus. Second, I've tried subclassing ListView with an implementation that lays itself out tall enough that there's no scrolling. This shows focus correctly, but I can't get it to redo the layout when I add/delete players and, more strangely, OnItemClickListeners aren't firing. (I haven't exhausted options for either approach, but neither will be easy. And this seems like something that should be easy so I suspect there's a better approach.) BTW, the obvious solution to this is to use a ListView with scrolling diabled -- forced to always lay itself out full-height. Have I missed that feature in the documentation? Thanks, --Eric -- 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
