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Hein du Plessis
Hein du Plessis

Reputation: 3357

Android: A good looking (standard) settings menu

I'm trying to get my app to blend in as much as possible with the "standard" with the rest of my android device. It's a stand-alone app, not integrated with the OS or anything, I just want it to look familiar.

The area I'm interested in is the "settings" screen. If I look at Android's standard settings screen, it's well spaced, perfect font size, with neat pin stripes between the menu items.

How do I do that? Is that a ListView? Is it done with a regular LinearLayout?

I would love to be able to replicate the look & feel in my app. Can anybody assist?

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And it's not just the Adroid OS. it's most of the "professional" apps out there:

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Many thanks

Upvotes: 20

Views: 28430

Answers (2)

Sephy
Sephy

Reputation: 50392

Actually, this is directly part of the Android source code, so I would strongly advise you to take a look in its structure. See the Android Settings tutorial for more info.

Settings are created from the SettingsActivity (which extends the PreferenceActivity, you might want to look this too), which in their turn have their layout based on the following xml files:

Things are quite strongly interlocked so it needs some reading...

Upvotes: 11

Aman Aalam
Aman Aalam

Reputation: 11251

AFAIK its a ListView. by implementing a custom ListView, you can achieve similar effect.

Moreover, you'll have to follow the Icon Design Guidelines to create such icons for ListView rows

Upvotes: 0

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