howdy, Mike!

Hi Mark!

how can I help you today?

I do have a short question with regard to a "custom style" of a tab activity.

I was asking myself "what would be the best way" to create tabs looking something like those in the official twitter app?!

AFAIK Google stated at the IO that they want to make source public, but I think they haven't yet, right?!

yeah, and at this point, I expect that'll never happen

I'm not convinced those are actually tabs

Do u think it's a ViewFlipper? Or whatelse?

ImageView or ImageButton using StateListDrawables, perhaps

and then a ViewFlipper or something beneath

bear in mind that I don't have the app, I'm working off of Market screenshots

I am asking this myself because this kind of "navigation" becomes quite (let's say) "common".

Many other apps follow these "style" (facebook app, etc.) and I want too.

bear in mind that Honeycomb uses a different mechanism for tabs (in the action bar)

and I expect that Ice Cream Sandwich will be more in that direction as well

so, be careful about investing too much time in a style that will be considered "old" in a year

Yeah, that's the next thing. So do you think it's possible to create anything working on Honeycomb/Ice Cream Sandwich as well?

on Honeycomb, I'd use tabs or navigation in the action bar

we'll see what the recommendations are for ICS, particularly on phone-sized screens, when it comes out

Better to use the "standard tab activity" at the moment?!

well, whether it is TabActivity or TabHost in a regular activity or something else akin to Twitter is up to you

perhaps ActionBarSherlock will support some sort of tab metaphor after ICS ships and we see how ICS handles tabs

OK - Thanks!

I think that's all I wanted to ask you...

OK

...just some hints how you would have done it.

Bye!

see ya!

morning

howdy, fitz!

quit questions on C2DM

how can I help you today?

do you know if it will work for google tv as well?

AFAIK, it should

but I do not have confirmation

rephrase

it should, once the Market is on GTV and we can write apps for it

the client-side piece of C2DM is part of the Market infrastructure, IIRC

that's why there were some issues on getting C2DM to work in the emulator

message can be 1024 characters long - can you have links to lets say to pull up a web site?

since that text is not directly displayed to the user, you can have in there whatever you want

XML

JSON

base64-encoded binary payload

recipe for egg nog

really - so maybe I missed that part the 1024 does not display - so it will give instructions to your app to fire off?

it triggers a BroadcastReceiver of yours

you get the data in an extra IIRC

your C2DMBaseReceiver subclass will be called with onMessage()

intent.getStringExtra("payload") is your 1024 bytes o' stuff

ok - will read up more on it thanks. When it says you have a C2DM server that sends out this info - is the server something that we are use to - a box or something that Google provides?

there are three pieces to the C2DM puzzle:

1. the device

2. Google's server farm

3. something of yours that is not on a device and is frequently assumed to be a Web server

#3 makes Web service requests of #2 to send data to #1

that being said, #3 could be a desktop app, or conceivably a mobile app (e.g., some other person), AFAIK

in my C2DM chapter, I just use a curl script as #3

ok - and it is still beta right? and you write that it is maybe not so reliable - I do not need my app to be mission critical so looking to see if this is worth looking into more

yes, it is still beta

I don't know that it has reliability problems per se, but it is a beta product, and it is from Google, so it is what it is

ok great thanks for info - so much to read up on :)

happy to help

have a great day

you too!