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Hands-On Android UI Development

You're reading from   Hands-On Android UI Development Design and develop attractive user interfaces for Android applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788475051
Length 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jason Morris Jason Morris
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Preface 1. Creating Android Layouts 2. Designing Form Screens FREE CHAPTER 3. Taking Actions 4. Composing User Interfaces 5. Binding Data to Widgets 6. Storing and Retrieving Data 7. Creating Overview Screens 8. Designing Material Layouts 9. Navigating Effectively 10. Making Overviews Even Better 11. Polishing Your Design 12. Customizing Widgets and Layouts 13. Activity Lifecycle
14. Test Your Knowledge Answers

Stack view


Sometimes, it's useful to be able to display long lists of items with only one item visible at a time, for example, the list of attachments for a ClaimItem. In this case, you can use the side-to-side ViewPager as you've already done, but there is another option--the StackView. The StackView class presents its contents as a three-dimensional stack of cards, with the "top" card fully visible, and some of the cards "behind it," as shown:

This is often a very useful pattern, as it provides the user with plenty of screen space to view the top item, while also being able to see that there are other items that can be viewed. This makes it ideal for displaying photos or large cards of data. It's very similar to how Android displays the list of running applications when you tap on the "Recent Apps" button on a device.

The StackView is a classic Adapter view, and works using the same Adapter implementations as ListView or GridView. If done correctly, you can write code that can be used in...

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