On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Doug Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > My users will want to toggle between two different "presentations" of > their current data selection, with differing layouts. I want to handle > this part of the app in a single activity, so am thinking of simply > calling setContentView to change the layout and then of course fill in > the data accordingly. > > Are there any drawbacks with this approach?
You keep destroying and recreating widgets, plus having to fire all the code to get event listeners and such set up again. I would recommend ViewFlipper or ViewSwitcher instead. > Also, exactly when does the window get redrawn in > this case? When the method that does the work (i.e., an event > callback) returns? Effectively, yes. The drawing operations are put on a message queue that will be processed again once you return control of the main application thread to Android. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Consulting: http://commonsware.com/consulting -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
