I guess you can say any particular widget is not necessary because the functionally can be done in a different way. But UI designers don't take "the API doesn't do that" as a reason for changing the design.
There are lots of posts in this forum with developers asking for horizontal scrolling and horizontal list views. It's a natural UI design element for some kinds of lists. It behaves somewhat like a drop down list (in that is is expandable) without obscuring the other widgets on the screen. The user can drag it (scroll) back and forth. I just completed an app for a client that is on the market which makes heavy use of horizontal list views. This was done with Gallery but the drawbacks are as noted above. Gallery doesn't quite act like a list because the focus is always centered. On Dec 25, 3:10 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 6:06 PM, jotobjects <jotobje...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Also I gotta wonder if this has not been done a 100 times already. > > Considering that I have never seen anything in any Android app that > screams "this is a horizontal-style ListView-esque thing", and since I > don't remember ever hearing of anyone writing one, and considering how > awful the ListView/AbsListView code is, I suspect that there are not > 100 existing implementations of your concept. But, that's just a > guess. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android Training in Atlanta:http://bignerdranch.com/classes/android -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
