Recommendations for Android: Layered Layouts

Question

I have a screen with search options. Clicking on an option displays a dialog or redirects to another screen, so I can’t use the “Settings” application approach: showing the next screen on the right.

On the tablet, my screen looks like this:

This is not very neat. I think we all read wooonderful design guidelines for Android, offering solutions only for the simplest problems like turning:

in:

I did not find guidelines for layered layouts other than "add list view and view details on the same screen, yo." Should I split my ListView into smaller ListViews (each section in a ListView)? Are there other apps that do this?

Answer 1

There are many links in this question:

How many actions against fragments?

Here are a few more:

• http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/02/android-30-fragments-api.html

• http://developer.android.com/guide/components/fragments.html

• Templates when you need to use activity transition and dynamic fragments

• Android - I need some explanation of snippets for actions and views

• Actions or snippets in Android?

• Multiple Fragment and Action Interactions

Also, yes, you can split ListViews into smaller ListViews. Fragments should make this easier to maintain.

You can also see the ActionBar tabs - there is also a lot of information here:

http://developer.android.com/training/design-navigation/descendant-lateral.html

Answer 2

Technically, I think the easiest way would be to use fragments. An example with a very similar layout in Pro Android 4 .

Answer 3

I am sure that in this situation you will find the Fragment class. More information here: http://developer.android.com/guide/components/fragments.html