Umm, ok, here I go again. If NumberPicker would have been provided in the SDK, then, someone would have asked for an alphabet picker, or symbol picker, etc, and the list goes on. Then, someone would have asked for a On-Off button pattern.
There are several things that could have been possible to provide, like extra widgets which developers might take advantage of, but then, this would have made the SDK more bulky. Kumar Bibek http://techdroid.kbeanie.com http://www.kbeanie.com On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:02 PM, mort <m...@sto-helit.de> wrote: > On 10 Jan., 22:21, Kumar Bibek <coomar....@gmail.com> wrote: > > The reason why a NumberPicker is not public or a part of the SDK is > > perhaps because it's not a widely used widget. If it were, it would > > have been a part of the SDK, and the widget would have been public. > > IMO. > > I think it's more like the other way around: It's not widely used > because it's not public. Well, and maybe partly because it's not that > beautiful and somewhat buggy (esp. if you enter numbers with the > keyboard). Nontheless, I think you'd see it way more often if it was > easier to use in own apps, and esp. if there would be support in > preference views - I for one often would prefer a number picker to > lists of predefined values or SeekBars, which are terribly imprecise. > (Dear Android developers: if you'd really do that, please also offer > min and max values) > > > There might be other reasons as well, but this seems to be the most > > obvious reason. Remember, the SDK is for a mobile device. > > I don't see why this should matter. The NumberPicker already is used > for date and time pickers since several Android versions on as "weak" > mobile devices as G1 or Tattoo. And I think even those would also cope > quite fine with somewhat fancier variations like the digit wheels > shown in the original post. > > -- > 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<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > 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 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
