You know - I believe that would work quite nicely... When I saw the name "Spinner" I assumed (Yes, I know what that means but in this case only the "Me" part applies!) that it was some sort of thing that iterated between a few different values before looping back to the beginning...
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:07 AM, amit <amitkee...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Does a Spinner take care of your requirement ? A spinner is not a > scrollable list like a list activity but it does show you a drop down > list. > > http://developer.android.com/guide/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/view/Spinner1.html > > > > On Sep 22, 7:43 pm, furby <wookie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Why does this type of thing always end up being so difficult? > > > > I want to have a scrolling list on the screen. Very simple... Except > > that the Android SDK seems to require that list to be a listview which > > is implemented in a completely different way from other programming > > languages... (Slight rant following, skip to the bottom to see my > > question, sorry...) Why is it so hard? Why can't I just say "Here's a > > listview on the page and there is a method for adding options onto it > > and I'll iterate through my result set to add them"? > > > > My question is simple - is there a simple way to use lists in Android? > > Or does one have to define entire screens every time just to display a > > list? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
