Pearlminimal / MultiItemRowListAdapter

MultiItemRowListAdapter

Android Multi Item Row ListAdapter

An Easy Way to Make Your ListView's Look Amazing on Tablets

With the launch of the tablet version of Umano Android app we decided to open-source another component, which allows you to very quickly make your ListViews and ListActivities look amazing on tablets and phablets by placing multiple items of your ListAdapter in each row in a ListView. Umano Team <3 Open Source.

As seen in Umano (http://umanoapp.com):

Usage

All you need to do is wrap your original ListAdapter using a MultiItemRowListAdapter:

    int spacing = (int)getResources().getDimension(R.dimen.spacing);
    int itemsPerRow = getResources().getInteger(R.integer.items_per_row);
    MultiItemRowListAdapter wrapperAdapter = new MultiItemRowListAdapter(this, mAdapter, itemsPerRow, spacing);
    setListAdapter(wrapperAdapter);

As you can see the constructor for MultiItemRowListAdapter takes two parameters itemsPerRow and spacing. The first one is just the number of items from the original adapter to place on each row, and the second one is the cell spacing in pixels between the items. It's really convenient to specify the parameters in xml, so that you can easily vary the number of items per row on different screen orientations and sizes. res/values/integers.xml - phone portrait (1 items per row)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <integer name="items_per_row">1</integer>
</resources>

res/values-land/integers.xml - phone landscape (2 items per row)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <integer name="items_per_row">2</integer>
</resources>

res/values-sw600/integers.xml - 7' tablet portrait (2 items per row)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <integer name="items_per_row">2</integer>
</resources>

res/values-sw600-land/integers.xml - 7' tablet landscape (3 items per row)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <integer name="items_per_row">3</integer>
</resources>

Requrements

Tested on Android 2.2+

Licence

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this work except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License in the LICENSE file, or at:

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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