Google launching android powered gpad

Google launching Android-based gPad???

After starting competition with Apple’s iPhone by throwing Nexus One into the market and giving the minimum standards what does Android based phone should have and showing that what can an Android based phone can do - does now Google thinking to launch Android based slate???

After seeing success of iPad, Google has started quickly working on Android based tablet which will be using Google’s branded hardware as Nexus One did.

Reports saying that Google has finally decided to launch its own Android-powered tablet which is right now in secrecy mode. The manufacturer yet is unknown but the people which are working on the project says that Google is testing with a few companies to explore delivery of books, magazines and other content on a tablet.

Gallery Example

Often we need in Android to make a view which contains all the images in a row and we can browse them by sliding them....Gallery is the control in android for this....

First of all you will have to make an inner class which extends BaseAdapter. Here's the code

public class ImageAdapter extends BaseAdapter {

       
        int mGalleryItemBackground;
        private Context mContext;

        private int[] mImageIds = {
                R.drawable.icon,R.drawable.android,R.drawable.array_03
        };


        public ImageAdapter(Context c) {
            mContext = c;
            TypedArray a = obtainStyledAttributes(R.styleable.default_gallery_android_galleryItemBackground ,mImageIds);
            mGalleryItemBackground = a.getResourceId(
                    R.styleable.default_gallery_android_galleryItemBackground, 0);
            a.recycle();
        }

        public int getCount() {
            return mImageIds.length;
        }

        public Object getItem(int position) {
            return position;
        }

        public long getItemId(int position) {
            return position;
        }

        public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
            ImageView i = new ImageView(mContext);

            i.setImageResource(mImageIds[position]);
            i.setLayoutParams(new Gallery.LayoutParams(150, 100));
            i.setScaleType(ImageView.ScaleType.FIT_XY);
            i.setBackgroundResource(mGalleryItemBackground);

            return i;
        }
}

Now the Activity class should look like this...

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
       
        Gallery g = (Gallery) findViewById(R.id.gallery);
        g.setAdapter(new ImageAdapter(this));

        g.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView parent, View v, int position, long id) {
                Toast.makeText(HelloGallery.this, "" + position, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        });
}


In your xml code you will just have to add these lines...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>


<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>
<Gallery xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/gallery"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>

</LinearLayout>

At the end your program will look like this