Sunday, 20 January 2013

ActionBar Sherlock : Drop down Ics Spinner and applying Style in android


 Add ActionBarSherlock Library Project to your Application Project, Here is a Link for this


Project Structure :


activity_main.xml

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" >

<com.actionbarsherlock.internal.widget.IcsSpinner
        android:id="@+id/ics_spinner"
        style="@style/spinner_style"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:scrollbars="none" />

</RelativeLayout>

drop_down_view.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent" >

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/name_view"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/imageView1"
            android:layout_marginLeft="17dp"
            android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/imageView1"
            android:text="Medium Text"
            android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/imageView1"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
            android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
            android:layout_marginLeft="14dp"
            android:src="@drawable/abs__ic_clear_normal" />

    </RelativeLayout>

styles.xml

<resources>
    <style name="spinner_style">
        <item name="android:dropDownWidth">fill_parent</item>
        <item name="android:showDividers">beginning|middle|end</item>
        <item name="android:alignmentMode">alignBounds</item>
        <item name="android:dividerHeight">2dp</item>
        <item name="android:scrollbars">none</item>
        <item name="android:scrollbarAlwaysDrawVerticalTrack">false</item>
        <item name="android:scrollbarTrackVertical">@android:color/transparent</item>
        <item name="android:dropDownSelector">@android:color/white</item>
        <item name="android:requiresFadingEdge">none</item>
    </style>
  </resources>

MainActivity.java

package com.rajeshvijayakumar.icsspinner;

import android.content.Context;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;

import com.actionbarsherlock.app.SherlockActivity;
import com.actionbarsherlock.internal.widget.IcsAdapterView;
import com.actionbarsherlock.internal.widget.IcsAdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener;
import com.actionbarsherlock.internal.widget.IcsSpinner;

public class MainActivity extends SherlockActivity implements OnItemSelectedListener {

    private IcsSpinner mIcsSpinner;
    private IcsAdapter mAdapter;
    private String[] mNameList = { "Akash", "Akshay", "Mahesh", "Mrithula",
            "Rajesh", "Sonika" };

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        mIcsSpinner = (IcsSpinner) findViewById(R.id.ics_spinner);
        mAdapter = new IcsAdapter(MainActivity.this, R.layout.drop_down_view, mNameList);
        mIcsSpinner.setAdapter(mAdapter);
        mIcsSpinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(this);
    }

    public class IcsAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<String> {

        String[] nameList = new String[mNameList.length];
       
        public IcsAdapter(Context context, int textViewResourceId,
                String[] objects) {
            super(context, textViewResourceId, objects);
            this.nameList = objects;
        }

        @Override
        public View getDropDownView(int position, View convertView,
                ViewGroup parent) {
            return getCustomView(position, convertView, parent);
        }

        @Override
        public void setNotifyOnChange(boolean notifyOnChange) {
            super.setNotifyOnChange(notifyOnChange);
        }

        @Override
        public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
            return getCustomView(position, convertView, parent);
        }

        public View getCustomView(int position, View convertView,
                ViewGroup parent) {

            LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
            View row = inflater.inflate(R.layout.drop_down_view, parent, false);
            TextView spinnerText = (TextView) row.findViewById(R.id.name_view);
            if (position < mNameList.length) {
                String cateName = mNameList[position];
                spinnerText.setText(cateName);
            }
            return row;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onItemSelected(IcsAdapterView<?> spinAdapView, View view,
            int position, long id) {
        Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, mNameList[position], Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }

    @Override
    public void onNothingSelected(IcsAdapterView<?> parent) {
    }
}

In AndroidManifest.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.rajeshvijayakumar.icsspinner"
    android:versionCode="1"
    android:versionName="1.0" >

    <uses-sdk
        android:minSdkVersion="8"
        android:targetSdkVersion="16" />

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/Theme.Sherlock" >
        <activity
            android:name=".MainActivity"
            android:label="@string/app_name" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>

</manifest>

Output :






Source Code : Download this Example with Library Here

13 comments:

  1. Thanks for giving amazing tutorials... working good for me.. thanks.

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  2. Really useful for me.. Thanks.

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  3. I have a question. when I change android:theme="@style/Theme.Sherlock" > all my widget change to theme Sherlock but I don't need to use theme Sherlock.I want to Drop down Ics Spinner theme sherlock. just Drop down Ics Spinner. what would I do ?
    Please help me !!

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    1. You can apply background for spinner and you apply your own style for drop down layout like layout bg, text color etc... So Even if you apply Theme.Sherlock, it won't affect your custom style.

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    2. how to set own style ? Could you show an example ?
      I'm inexperienced.
      Thank you for answer me.

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    3. Thank for a I'm done.it's work.

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  4. Nice tutorial .. It work's fyn .. Thank You ..

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  5. Very Very useful article. Thanks for the help

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  6. Very Nice tutorial, thanks for saving and sharing :). thank you

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