Comments for Styling Android

Comment on Navigation Drawer – Part 1 by Miral

Miral — Tue, 21 May 2013 21:23:39 +0000

Does anyone know how I can add icons to the side of each List item with this code?

Comment on Introduction to Spans by Mark Allison

Mark Allison — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:47:19 +0000

Why do you need to store the SpannableString? SpannableString is a mechanism for attaching formatting markup to Strings for rendering purposes, it is not designed to be a storage format. You will need to devise your own format for storing the text and markup and construct a SpannableString from this when you have read your data and wish to render it.

Comment on Introduction to Spans by Satio

Satio — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:36:04 +0000

How to store a SpannableString in SQLite or a temporary file,I’ve tried serialization but as the object is not serializable I’m unable to store it.Kindly help me out …

Thanks in Advance

Comment on Navigation Drawer – Part 1 by Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 21 May 2013 03:50:11 +0000

Project here to work with ABS.
https://github.com/tobykurien/SherlockNavigationDrawer

Comment on Navigation Drawer – Part 1 by Prasham Trivedi

Prasham Trivedi — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:27:03 +0000

ActionbarSherlock is mostly compatible with navigation drawer. But I think there is one point where ABS and navigation drawer are not compatible, where we can open and close drawer with icon click.

According to code
if (mDrawerToggle.onOptionsItemSelected(item)) {
return true;
}
It requires item to be android.view.MenuItem but we get com.actionbarsherlock.view.MenuItem. Which throws class cast exception.

Comment on Navigation Drawer – Part 1 by Miral

Miral — Sat, 18 May 2013 20:25:11 +0000

Thanks for this! Simple. I was just about to start working on the SlidingMenu library when they updated this at the I/O.

Works just how I want it to. Just need to get it designed correctly and get it working with ABS.

Coming along well. Looking forward to part two!

Comment on Navigation Drawer – Part 1 by Mark Allison

Mark Allison — Sat, 18 May 2013 16:35:22 +0000

The basic DrawerLayout stuff may be compatible with ABS, but I wonder whether ActionBarDrawerToggle (which is covered in next week’s article) is. I haven’t tried it yet.

Comment on Navigation Drawer – Part 1 by Kevin Tan

Kevin Tan — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:55:08 +0000

It’s compatible with ActionBarSherlock. But I wonder how to get the subtle animated drawer icon…

Comment on Navigation Drawer – Part 1 by Mark Allison

Mark Allison — Sat, 18 May 2013 09:14:55 +0000

Thanks for sharing that. Maybe Google realised that there were a lot of people using ABS so built in compatibility for it. That’s very good news.

Comment on Navigation Drawer – Part 1 by Peter

Peter — Sat, 18 May 2013 09:07:37 +0000

I tried it with Sherlock.no problems whatsoever.