50 Android Hacks

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

About the Cover Illustration

Chapter 1. Working your way around layouts

Hack 1 Centering views using weights: Android v1.6+

1.1. Combining weightSum and layout_weight

1.2. The bottom line

1.3. External links

Hack 2 Using lazy loading and avoiding replication: Android v1.6+

2.1. Avoid replication using the <include /> tag

2.2. Lazy loading views with the ViewStub class

2.3. The bottom line

2.4. External links

Hack 3 Creating a custom ViewGroup: Android v1.6+

3.1. Understanding how Android draws views

3.2. Creating the CascadeLayout

3.3. Adding custom attributes to the children

3.4. The bottom line

3.5. External links ...