Ice Cream Sandwich GridLayout

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) introduced a new type of layouts: the <b>Gridlayout</b>.<br />Gridlayout is like the <b><Table></b> tag in <b>HTML</b>. child widgets are arranged in <b>Cells</b> made of <b>Rows</b> and <b>Columns</b>.<br /><br />Grid layout is a <b>ViewGroup</b> that can be used in constructing dashboard activities like that one in the Google Plus application:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2624328/Android%20Pro/2011/October/gplus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2624328/Android%20Pro/2011/October/gplus.jpg" width="192" /></a></div><br />so let's see what we can do with the GridLayout:<br />we'll construct a simple dashboard layout like this:</div><pre class="brush:xml"><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><br /><GridLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"<br /> android:layout_width="fill_parent"<br /> android:layout_height="fill_parent"<br /> android:rowCount="5"<br /> android:columnCount="3"<br /> ><br /><br /> <Button<br /> android:layout_width="wrap_content"<br /> android:layout_height="wrap_content"<br /> android:text="Button 1"<br /> android:layout_row="0"<br /> android:layout_column="0"<br /> android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"<br /> /><br /> <br /> <Button<br /> android:layout_width="wrap_content"<br /> android:layout_height="wrap_content"<br /> android:text="Button 2"<br /> android:layout_row="0"<br /> android:layout_column="1"<br /> android:layout_margin="5dp" /><br /> <br /> <Button<br /> android:layout_width="wrap_content"<br /> android:layout_height="wrap_content"<br /> android:text="Button 3"<br /> android:layout_row="1"<br /> android:layout_column="0"<br /> android:layout_margin="5dp" /><br /> <br /> <Button<br /> android:layout_width="wrap_content"<br /> android:layout_height="wrap_content"<br /> android:text="Button 4"<br /> android:layout_row="1"<br /> android:layout_column="1"<br /> android:layout_margin="5dp" /><br /> <br /> <Button<br /> android:layout_width="wrap_content"<br /> android:layout_height="wrap_content"<br /> android:text="Button 5"<br /> android:layout_row="2"<br /> android:layout_column="0"<br /> android:layout_margin="5dp" /><br /> <br /> <br /><br /></GridLayout><br /><br /></pre></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2624328/Android%20Pro/2011/October/device1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2624328/Android%20Pro/2011/October/device1.png" width="192" /></a></div><br />Widgets are placed in position specified by <b>android:layout_column</b> and <b>android:layout_row</b> properties.<br />we can organize the widgets in a similar way by using the new <b>Space</b> View like this:</div><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><br /><GridLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"<br />android:layout_width="fill_parent"<br />android:layout_height="fill_parent"<br />android:rowCount="5"<br />android:columnCount="3"<br /><br />><br /><br /><Space <br />android:layout_width="5dp"<br />android:layout_height="5dp"/><br /><Button<br />android:layout_width="wrap_content"<br />android:layout_height="wrap_content"<br />android:text="Button 1"<br />android:layout_row="0"<br />android:layout_column="0" <br />/><br /><Space <br />android:layout_width="5dp"<br />android:layout_height="5dp"/><br /><Button<br />android:layout_width="wrap_content"<br />android:layout_height="wrap_content"<br />android:text="Button 2"<br />android:layout_row="0"<br />android:layout_column="1"<br />/><br /><Space <br />android:layout_width="5dp"<br />android:layout_height="5dp"/><br /><br /><Button<br />android:layout_width="wrap_content"<br />android:layout_height="wrap_content"<br />android:text="Button 3"<br />android:layout_row="1"<br />android:layout_column="0"<br />/><br /><Space <br />android:layout_width="5dp"<br />android:layout_height="5dp"/><br /><Button<br />android:layout_width="wrap_content"<br />android:layout_height="wrap_content"<br />android:text="Button 4"<br />android:layout_row="1"<br />android:layout_column="1"<br />/><br /><Space <br />android:layout_width="5dp"<br />android:layout_height="5dp"/><br /><Button<br />android:layout_width="wrap_content"<br />android:layout_height="wrap_content"<br />android:text="Button 5"<br />android:layout_row="2"<br />android:layout_column="0"<br />/><br /><Space <br />android:layout_width="5dp"<br />android:layout_height="5dp"/><br /><br /><br /></GridLayout><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Contest: Do you think Android Ice Cream Sandwich will beat Apple iOS 5

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Hello everybody.<br />Google will release the next major Android update: <b>Android 4.0 (Ice cream Sandwich)</b> along with it's next flagship phone: the <b>Nexus Prime</b>.<br /><br />Join our <b>Contest </b>and have the chance to win a copy of one of these wonderful Android books:<br /><br /><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><b><a href="http://www.android2ee.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70&Itemid=102&lang=en">Android, A Complete Course, From Basics To Enterprise Edition.</a></b></li><li><b><a href="http://www.android2ee.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71&Itemid=104&lang=en">Android, A Quick Course.</a></b></li><li><b><a href="http://www.android2ee.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=105&lang=en">Android, An Enterprise Edition Vision.</a></b></li></ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table><tbody><tr> <td><br /><a href="http://www.android2ee.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70&Itemid=102&lang=en" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.android2ee.com/images/stories/couv-android/couv-complet-course.jpg" width="141" /></a></td> <td><br /><a href="http://www.android2ee.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71&Itemid=104&lang=en" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.android2ee.com/images/stories/couv-android/couv-quick-course.jpg" width="141" /></a></td> <td><br /><a href="http://www.android2ee.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=105&lang=en" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.android2ee.com/images/stories/couv-android/couv-Enterprise.jpg" width="141" /></a></td> </tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>all you've got to do is to drop a comment answering the following question:</div><div><b>Do you think Android Ice Cream Sandwich will beat Apple iOS 5 ?</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>the contest ends on November 7th, winners will be announced then.</div><div>waiting for your comments</div><br /><br /></div>

Hello everybody. Google will release the next major Android update: Android 4.0 (Ice cream Sandwich) along with it's next flagship phon...