On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 12:46 PM, John Lussmyer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Is there an examples page somewhere that shows what all the standard > widgets > > look like? > > It'd be nice to see them all on one page. > > Not all, but here are several: > > http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/index.html > > > This would be especially helpful since Android seems to have come up with > > their own set of names for widgets. What they call a "Spinner", would be > a > > ComboBox or DropDownList on other systems. > > Not really. A combobox allows data entry, which Spinner does not. > Spinner back in pre-Android 1.0 days might actually have qualified as > a drop-down list, but today, the list does not drop down. > Which actually points out the problem. You can't tell what it does/looks like from the name, and most of the widgets have fairly useless descriptions. Some of the classes in the widgets package are completely opaque. I can't even tell if it's a widget or a helper class. -- 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
