Re: [android-developers] custom ui widgets?

2012-01-25 Thread TreKing
2012/1/25 John Davis > I'm just trying to get a rough heading from the established guide before I > head out into the wilderness. I'd start here: http://developer.android.com/search.html#q=layout manager&t=5 -

Re: [android-developers] custom ui widgets?

2012-01-25 Thread John Davis
Hello TreKing, Yes, the diagonal placement might not work with the gridview, but I can adjust my goal to fit the gridview. Very true about many viable ways. I'm just trying to get a rough heading from the established guide before I head out into the wilderness. John On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:4

Re: [android-developers] custom ui widgets?

2012-01-25 Thread TreKing
2012/1/25 John Davis > Possibly the solution to my problem is a custom component consisting of a > GridView with three textviews. > > Does that seem right to you? > Possibly. Your image to me looks like it would require a custom layout manager, but I haven't done that, so I can't say that will f

Re: [android-developers] custom ui widgets?

2012-01-25 Thread John Davis
Hello TreKing, Thank you. I'll look into that. FWIW, I've gotten some other suggestions off list. It appears that I will need to learn gridview. Possibly the solution to my problem is a custom component consisting of a GridView with three textviews. Does that seem right to you? John On Wed,

Re: [android-developers] custom ui widgets?

2012-01-25 Thread TreKing
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:54 AM, John Davis wrote: > I don't know anything about custom UI usage. Any suggestions on what I should do? http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/custom-components.html --

[android-developers] custom ui widgets?

2012-01-25 Thread John Davis
Hello I have a good understanding of the basic ui api. I can use TextViews and layouts, but I don't know anything about custom UI usage. I would like to build a UI which looks something like this: http://s1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii540/netskink/?action=view¤t=ssicons.jpg Possibly a component