Lecture 06 Menus and Lists
HIT3328 / HIT8328 Software Development for Mobile Devices
Dr. Rajesh Vasa, 2011 Twitter: @rvasa Blog: http://rvasa.blogspot.com
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Lecture Overview
Using Frame Layout Adapters and Working with Simple Lists
Working with Menus
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Menus
Menus can be customised per activity
Android offers a Menu button, iOS does not
Menus have a label and an icon Icon is strongly recommended by the Android UI guidelines
Menu
Icons at different resolutions should be provided (ideally)
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Creating a Menu
Name App (from Lecture 5)
Menus are dened as a resource
We can use icons provided by Android SDK (recommended)
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Menus are Resources
Convention is to place it in menu folder
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Wiring up a Menu to Show
Call back method that we have to write
Resource Identier
XML Resource le is converted (inated) into a Menu object that will be rendered (shown) on screen
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Handling Menu Click
Call back method that we have to write
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Toasting a Message
Android offers this via the Toast utility
There is often a need to show a message for a short period and then fade on mobile devices
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Toasting a Message
Message displayed for a second
On Click
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Creating a Toast
Duration can be customised
Android offers Toast.LENGTH_LONG, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT as built in defaults
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Lecture Roadmap - Where are we?
Using Frame Layout Adapters and Working with Simple Lists
Working with Menus
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Frame Layout Offers Overlays
Frame Layout is also used to help create Tab Panes in Android
Frame Layout offers us this feature
Often with variation in transparency
We often need a way to overlay multiple views (or layouts) on top of each other
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Simple Frame Layout (Light Bulb)
Button is placed on top of Image View On / Off Images are also placed on top of each other
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Frame Layout - Code
2 Image Views and 1 Button in the same layout
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Frame Layout - Code
We control visibility explicitly
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Light Bulb Logic
We ip the visibility of the images Method is called onClick
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Lecture Roadmap - Where are we?
Using Frame Layout Adapters and Working with Simple Lists
Working with Menus
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A Simple List App.
Displays Latitude and Longitude of a location
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Constituents of a List based screen
Text Views
ListView
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Lists get data via an Adapter
Data Source
ListView
Adapter
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Adapter Formats Data for Display
Data Source
ListView
Adapter
Data is formatted for display via customised layout attached to the Adapter
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List Views are very flexible
We specify the layout for each line item of a list Layout can be provided as a resource le (XML)
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Adapter Feeds data to List View
Data Source
ListView
Adapter
Data Source feeds data to the Adapter for formatting
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Adapter Offers Separation of Concerns
Data Source
ListView
Adapter
Data Source can be an array, collection object, external database, or an external server
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Simple List App.
Domain Model: HashMap (Cities, Location)
Data Source (Cities names)
ListView
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Adapter (Simple Item Layout)
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Domain Model
Ideally, you read an external resource
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Wiring up Data - Adapter - ListView
Activity extends ListActivity
We are using an Array Adapter (others are available)
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Wiring up Data - Adapter - ListView
We are using SDK provided layout style (we can also write our own)
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Wiring up Data - Adapter - ListView
We are setting the data source to use
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Wiring up Data - Adapter - ListView
Tell the List View to display from adapter
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Wiring up Data - Adapter - ListView
Only one ListView can receive data via the default setListAdapter
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Activity Layout
ListView that will receive data provided via setListAdapter
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Activity Layout
Special built-in identier ListView that will receive data provided via setListAdapter
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Handling List Click Event
This call back is provided by the parent (List Activity) class -- we override it
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But, what about complex lists?
We will cover it later
(if you are curious, look at examples online)
Key concepts are the same
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Lecture Summary
Using Frame Layout Adapters and Working with Simple Lists
Working with Menus
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