TreKing wrote: > --001485f9217eb9364e0487d557cc > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Brian Victor <[email protected]>wrote: >> I'd like to get started with Android development by scratching my biggest >> itch: the date and time pickers. > What's wrong with them?
Let's start with the time picker, which is the most suboptimal from my point of view. A basic, uncreative time picker should require a maximum of 6 taps, being generous, to enter a time of 12:30: "clear"; "1"; "2"; "3"; "0"; "Done" The current time picker has two entry methods. First, you can repeatedly tap or tap and hold the + and - buttons, which is tolerable for hours but laborious for minutes. Second, you can tap on the text entry field, which pops up a keyboard in alphabetical mode and does not clear the existing text. Using this method requires the following taps: "tap on hours field"; "del"; "?123"; "1"; "2"; "tap on minutes field"; "del"; "del"; "?123"; "3"; "0"; The date picker is less irritating, but I'd really like it to display a calendar as most date pickers do. >> * If I change those controls, will I be able to get the result onto >> my Droid without rooting it or waiting for a patch to be accepted upstream >> and pushed to my phone by my carrier? > You have the entire source for Android - take the part you want (the > pickers) and throw them in your own project. I don't have a project yet. I want to replace the global controls so that (e.g.) the built-in calendar program becomes usable. Right now it takes so long to set up an event that I don't even bother. >> * Why are those controls implemented as dialog boxes rather than intents? > Because they're controls ... that users have to interact with ... how would > you do that with intents? It you want to ask the user to choose a contact, you use an intent, right? If you want to ask the user to take a photo, you use an intent. I'm not sure why choosing dates or times are so much different. But then, this is why this is on beginners; I have only a high level understanding of the architecture and could be missing something obvious. -- Brian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en
