Can you give a little more detail about how the workflow of your application is supposed to work? We might be able to give some better suggestions on how best implement it.
Seems to me like you have two different options, but they are drastically different and the one you would want to choose would depend on how your app works: 1. Switch to a new Activity. You do this by creating a new intent and passing in the class of the new Activity in the constructor. You then call startActivity from the current context (most likely an Activity) and that will launch the new Activity. However, you have to set up your activities with the correct behavior when you do this... e.g. when you go to the new activity should it replace the current one on the Activity stack or should the user go back to it if they hit the back button? See http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/intents/intents-filters.htmlfor more info on Intents... 2. Use some mechanism to store a setting (most likely using SharedPreferences but there are other methods available as well) and read that setting in the onCreate method of your activity to determine which layout to load. This would require the user to exit out of the application and restart it to see the new layout though... (but I have seen this mechanism used in quite a few apps, just put a note or something saying that changing the setting requires a restart). See http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html for more info on storing data... I'm sure there are many other ways to go about this but these seem like the most intuitive to me off the top of my head. Again, if you were to walk us through the entire user experience we might be able to give some more precise advice/feedback... Hope that helps somewhat, Justin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who don't. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:48 PM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > How would you do it via Switching the Activity > > On May 24, 7:34 pm, Justin Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hmmm... that may be possible but I'm not sure exactly how to do it. I > know > > there have been lots of people who have tried but I'm not sure if they > have > > come up with a solution... > > > > If you can't figure it out you can always set it up so that the layout > > changes requires a restart of your app... 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