Re: [android-developers] Re: Is there a Horizontal ListView?

2010-12-29 Thread Richard Leggett
I did some digging around this a while back and Mark is on the money, it'll take a big chunk of time. But I would agree there are plenty of uses for things like horizontal lists, in fact there's a very prominent one in the core SMS app which allows you to choose a word from a list of

[android-developers] Re: Is there a Horizontal ListView?

2010-12-25 Thread jotobjects
I wonder if if would be better to modify Gallery or ListView to get a HorizontalListView? Even after cutting out the header/footer stuff there are lots of top/ bottom and up/down details in ListView that would need to change. Fundamentally there doesn't seem to be a reason for ListView to not

Re: [android-developers] Re: Is there a Horizontal ListView?

2010-12-25 Thread Mark Murphy
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

[android-developers] Re: Is there a Horizontal ListView?

2010-12-25 Thread jotobjects
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

Re: [android-developers] Re: Is there a Horizontal ListView?

2010-12-25 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 6:27 PM, jotobjects jotobje...@gmail.com wrote: But UI designers don't take the API doesn't do that as a reason for changing the design. UI designers can ask for whatever they want. It is up to engineers to explain to management that the designers are asking for things