Hi,

I've built a small widget that I think some of you might like.
Here is a screen recording of the view in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NARZmoyZypk

It's basically a retractable panel that can be docked to any side of the screen.
You must provide the Drawable for the toggle button and a layout id for the inner content of the panel,

For example

Code: Select all

   <com.MobileAnarchy.Android.Widgets.DockPanel.DockPanel
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
       android:layout_height="fill_parent"
       android:layout_gravity="right"
       ma:dockPosition="right"
       ma:handleButtonDrawableResourceId="@drawable/right_dock_handle"
       ma:contentLayoutId="@layout/dockpanel_vertical_content"
       ma:animationDuration="1000" />


The full source code and a demo project can be found at:
http://code.google.com/p/mobile-anarchy-widgets/

I have one issue: When the animation ends and I set the inner panel's visibility to "GONE", there is a very small (but noticable) flicker on the toggle button.
You can't actually see it in the video, you must download and run the project yourself.

Is there a "trick" to overcome this flickering?
Hopefully one of you has the answer, so I will be able to finish this widget and move on to the next one

Regards,
Oded

Hi odedo,

thank you very much for your great widget!

I really would like to use it in my app. But I use Eclipse to develop my apps for android.

Version: Helios Service Release 1
Build id: 20100917-0705

In this Version I can't use your Widget, because Eclipse don't know or find it in its libraries.

This is what Eclipse give me back in the Error Log:

Warning
Tue Feb 22 10:22:01 CET 2011
AndroidManifest: Ignoring unknown 'com.MobileAnarchy.Android.Widgets.DockPanel.DockPanel' XML element

Do I have to put any code into my AndroidManifest which references to your widget?
I use in this Android Project the 2.1 SDK, if you need to know.

Can you help me to fix this Problem?
That would be very nice.
Thank you very much.

Best regards,
pyretta

Can anyone else help me, please?
I really don't have any clue why it doesn't work.
I can't imagine that this problem occurs just on my system.

Which solution did you find zu solve this problem?

I would be very glad for any help.
Thank you.

I suggest you'd copy the entire "DockPanel" folder into your project, keeping the namespace unchanged.
That's what I did when I used this view on my projects.

The widgets project is to "group" all my custom widgets into one place, but I don't reference this project from other projects.

Regards,
Oded