Also, see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4981430/dashboard-layout-pattern
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Robert Louden <rloude...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ah, the dynamic part makes sense for a GridView. I've seen a ScrollView also > be used with a LinearLayout template, so I guess it really is preference at > that point. > > I must say that I never thought of using a ListView for the dashboard. I'm > not even sure how. Do you use two views in each list row? What benefit do > you see with using the ListView? > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Albert <albert8...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> My guess is that you would want to use a LinearLayout if the dashboard >> will be static (you know before hand where everything goes) and prefer >> a GridView if you have a dynamic dashboard - maybe you will even want >> it to scroll (like places in Google Maps) >> >> Now I have actually used a ListView in my app's dashboard - is just >> slightly different as I got a "profile" section that takes the full >> width: >> >> >> https://ssl.gstatic.com/android/market/com.alportela.tracker.view/ss-0-320-480-160-0-bfe11461b144d969f0242f525bf500f21057cfe8 >> >> cant see how I can get that using a gridview. >> >> - Alberto >> >> On Apr 22, 7:13 pm, Robert <rloude...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Following the dashboard interface from the Google I/O 2010 >> > conference<http://code.google.com/p/iosched/>, >> > I see that they use a LinearLayout to make the dashboard. Other examples >> > also use this style. I was wondering why wouldn't you use a GridView >> > instead, seeing that it's mostly organized for you already? You can also >> > more easily set a listener for the entire GridView, as oppose to >> > individually writing a line of code for setting a listener for each >> > button. >> > Does it really matter or is there any difference? >> >> -- >> 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 > > -- > 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 -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training in NYC: http://marakana.com/training/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
