List view

• Android ListView is a view which groups several items

and display them in vertical scrollable list
• The list items are automatically inserted to the list using
an Adapter that pulls content from a source such as an
array or database
• Adapter acts as a bridge between the UI components and
the data source that fill data into the UI component
• Adapter holds the data and sends it to an adapter view
the view can take the data from adapter view and show
the data on different views like as spinner, list view, grid
view etc.
• The ListView and GridView are subclasses
of AdapterView and they can be populated by binding
them to an Adapter, which retrieves data from an
external source and creates a View that represents each
data entry.
• Android provides several subclasses of Adapter that are
useful for retrieving different kinds of data and building
views for an AdapterView ( i.e. ListView or GridView).
• The common adapters are ArrayAdapter,Base
Adapter, CursorAdapter, SimpleCursorAdapter,SpinnerA
dapter and WrapperListAdapter.
• By default, ArrayAdapter creates a view for each array
item by calling toString() on each item and placing the
contents in a TextView.
• Attributes
• android:id
Grid view
• Android GridView shows items in two-dimensional
scrolling grid (rows & columns) and the grid items are
not necessarily predetermined but they automatically
inserted to the layout using a ListAdapter
• android:id -his is the ID which uniquely identifies the
layout.
• android:columnWidth - This specifies the fixed width for
each column. This could be in px, dp, sp, in, or mm.
• android:gravity - Specifies the gravity within each cell
• android:numColumns - Defines how many columns to
show. May be an integer value, such as "100" or auto_fit
 which means display as many columns as possible to fill
the available space.
• android:stretchMode - Defines how columns should
stretch to fill the available empty space, if any. This must
be either of the values none − Stretching is disabled.
spacingWidth − The spacing between each column is
stretched.
columnWidth − Each column is stretched equally.
spacingWidthUniform − The spacing between each
column is uniformly stretched.
• android:verticalSpacing - Defines the default vertical
spacing between rows. This could be in px, dp, sp, in, or
mm.
Image view
• ImageView class is used to display an image file in
application
• Image file is easy to use but hard to master in Android,
because of the various screen sizes in Android devices.
• Imageview comes with different configuration options to
support different scale types.
• Scale type options are used for scaling the bounds of an
image to the bounds of the imageview
• android:id
• android:src - src is an attribute used to set a source file
Scroll view
• In android, ScrollView is a kind of layout that is useful to
add vertical or horizontal scroll bars to the content which
 is larger than the actual size of layouts such
as linearlayout, relativelayout, framelayout, etc
• The ScrollView will enable a scroll to the content which
is exceeding the screen layout and allow users to see the
complete content by scrolling.
• ScrollView can hold only one direct child. In case, if
multiple views are to be added within the scroll view,
then they need to be included in another standard layout
like linearlayout, relativelayout, framelayout, etc
• In android, ScrollView supports only vertical scrolling.
In case, if horizontal scrolling is required, then
a HorizontalScrollView component should be used.
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Custom Toast alert
• A toast provides simple feedback about an operation in a
small popup.
• It only fills the amount of space required for the message
and the current activity remains visible and interactive.
• Toasts automatically disappear after a timeout.
• makeText() – this method returns a initialized Toast
object
• Parameters
• Application context
• Text message
• Duration
In android, Toast is a small popup notification that is used to
display an information about the operation which is performed
in the app.
The Toast will show the message for a small period of time
and it will disappear automatically after a timeout.
Eg
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),str,Toast.LENGTH_
SHORT)
• To display the toast, show() can be invoked
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),str,Toast.LENGTH_
SHORT).show()
TimePicker
• Android Time Picker allows to select the time of day in
either 24 hour or AM/PM mode.
• The time consists of hours, minutes and clock format.
• Android provides this functionality through TimePicker
class
• Methods
is24HourView() -This method returns true if this is in 24 hour
view else false
setCurrentHour(Integer currentHour) - This method sets the
current hour
setCurrentMinute(Integer currentMinute) -
This method sets the current minute
setIs24HourView(Boolean is24HourView) -
This method set whether in 24 hour or AM/PM mode
Attributes
android:timePickerMode –
spinner - Time picker with spinner controls to select the time
clock - Time picker with clock face to select the time

DatePicker
 • In Android, DatePicker is a widget used to select a date.
It allows to select date by day, month and year in your
custom UI.
• Methods
getDayOfMonth()- gets the selected day of month
getMonth() – gets the selected month
getYear() – get the selected year
updateDate(int year, int month, int day) – updates the current
date