android wearable-Creating Cards and Creating Lists

  Cards present information to users with a consistent look and feel across different apps.

  The Wearable UI Library provides implementations of cards specifically designed for wearable devices. This library contains the CardFrame class, which wraps views inside a card-styled frame with a white background, rounded corners, and a light-drop shadow. A CardFrame instance can only contain one direct child, usually a layout manager, to which you can add other views to customize the content inside the card.

  You can add cards to your app in two ways:

• Use or extend the CardFragment class.
• Add a card inside a CardScrollView instance in your layout.

Note: This lesson shows you how to add cards to Android Wear activities. Android notifications on wearable devices are also displayed as cards. For more information, see Adding Wearable Features to Notifications.

>  The following sample code shows the code for the screen display shown in figure 1:

<android.support.wearable.view.BoxInsetLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:background="@drawable/robot_background"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_width="match_parent">

    <FrameLayout
        android:id="@+id/frame_layout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        app:layout_box="bottom">

    </FrameLayout>
</android.support.wearable.view.BoxInsetLayout>

The following code adds the CardFragment instance to the activity in figure 1:

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_wear_activity2);

    FragmentManager fragmentManager = getFragmentManager();
    FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction = fragmentManager.beginTransaction();
    CardFragment cardFragment = CardFragment.create(getString(R.string.cftitle),
                                                    getString(R.string.cfdesc),
                                                    R.drawable.p);
    fragmentTransaction.add(R.id.frame_layout, cardFragment);
    fragmentTransaction.commit();
}

To create a card with a custom layout using the CardFragment class, extend the class and override itsonCreateContentView method.

<android.support.wearable.view.BoxInsetLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:background="@drawable/robot_background"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_width="match_parent">

    <android.support.wearable.view.CardScrollView
        android:id="@+id/card_scroll_view"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        app:layout_box="bottom">

        <android.support.wearable.view.CardFrame
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent">

            <LinearLayout
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:orientation="vertical"
                android:paddingLeft="5dp">
                <TextView
                    android:fontFamily="sans-serif-light"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:text="@string/custom_card"
                    android:textColor="@color/black"
                    android:textSize="20sp"/>
                <TextView
                    android:fontFamily="sans-serif-light"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:text="@string/description"
                    android:textColor="@color/black"
                    android:textSize="14sp"/>
            </LinearLayout>
        </android.support.wearable.view.CardFrame>
    </android.support.wearable.view.CardScrollView>
</android.support.wearable.view.BoxInsetLayout>

The<CardScrollView> element element detects the shape of the screen and displays the card differently on round and square devices, using wider side margins on round screens. However, placing the <CardScrollView> element inside a <BoxInsetLayout> and using the layout_box="bottom" attribute is useful to align the card to the bottom of round screens without cropping its content.

>  Creating Lists

 Lists let users select an item from a set of choices easily on wearable devices. 

 The Wearable UI Library includes the WearableListView class, which is a list implementation optimized for wearable devices.

 The following layout adds a list view to an activity using a <BoxInsetLayout> element, so the list is displayed properly on both round and square devices:

<android.support.wearable.view.BoxInsetLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:background="@drawable/robot_background"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_width="match_parent">

    <FrameLayout
        android:id="@+id/frame_layout"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        app:layout_box="left|bottom|right">

        <android.support.wearable.view.WearableListView
            android:id="@+id/wearable_list"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_width="match_parent">
        </android.support.wearable.view.WearableListView>
    </FrameLayout>
</android.support.wearable.view.BoxInsetLayout>

In many cases, each list item consists of an icon and a description. The Notifications sample implements a custom layout that extends LinearLayout to incorporate these two elements inside each list item. This layout also implements the methods in the WearableListView.OnCenterProximityListener interface to change the color of the item's icon and fade the text in response to events from the WearableListView element as the user scrolls through the list.

public class WearableListItemLayout extends LinearLayout
             implements WearableListView.OnCenterProximityListener {

    private ImageView mCircle;
    private TextView mName;

    private final float mFadedTextAlpha;
    private final int mFadedCircleColor;
    private final int mChosenCircleColor;

    public WearableListItemLayout(Context context) {
        this(context, null);
    }

    public WearableListItemLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        this(context, attrs, 0);
    }

    public WearableListItemLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs,
                                  int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);

        mFadedTextAlpha = getResources()
                         .getInteger(R.integer.action_text_faded_alpha) / 100f;
        mFadedCircleColor = getResources().getColor(R.color.grey);
        mChosenCircleColor = getResources().getColor(R.color.blue);
    }

    // Get references to the icon and text in the item layout definition
    @Override
    protected void onFinishInflate() {
        super.onFinishInflate();
        // These are defined in the layout file for list items
        // (see next section)
        mCircle = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.circle);
        mName = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.name);
    }

    @Override
    public void onCenterPosition(boolean animate) {
        mName.setAlpha(1f);
        ((GradientDrawable) mCircle.getDrawable()).setColor(mChosenCircleColor);
    }

    @Override
    public void onNonCenterPosition(boolean animate) {
        ((GradientDrawable) mCircle.getDrawable()).setColor(mFadedCircleColor);
        mName.setAlpha(mFadedTextAlpha);
    }
}

> After you implement a custom layout for list items, you provide a layout definition file that specifies the layout parameters of each of the components inside a list item. 

</com.example.android.support.wearable.notifications.WearableListItemLayout>

The adapter populates the WearableListView.OnCenterProximityListener element with content. The following simple adapter populates the list with elements based on an array of strings:

private static final class Adapter extends WearableListView.Adapter {
    private String[] mDataset;
    private final Context mContext;
    private final LayoutInflater mInflater;

    // Provide a suitable constructor (depends on the kind of dataset)
    public Adapter(Context context, String[] dataset) {
        mContext = context;
        mInflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
        mDataset = dataset;
    }

    // Provide a reference to the type of views you're using
    public static class ItemViewHolder extends WearableListView.ViewHolder {
        private TextView textView;
        public ItemViewHolder(View itemView) {
            super(itemView);
            // find the text view within the custom item's layout
            textView = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.name);
        }
    }

    // Create new views for list items
    // (invoked by the WearableListView's layout manager)
    @Override
    public WearableListView.ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent,
                                                          int viewType) {
        // Inflate our custom layout for list items
        return new ItemViewHolder(mInflater.inflate(R.layout.list_item, null));
    }

    // Replace the contents of a list item
    // Instead of creating new views, the list tries to recycle existing ones
    // (invoked by the WearableListView's layout manager)
    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(WearableListView.ViewHolder holder,
                                 int position) {
        // retrieve the text view
        ItemViewHolder itemHolder = (ItemViewHolder) holder;
        TextView view = itemHolder.textView;
        // replace text contents
        view.setText(mDataset[position]);
        // replace list item's metadata
        holder.itemView.setTag(position);
    }

    // Return the size of your dataset
    // (invoked by the WearableListView's layout manager)
    @Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        return mDataset.length;
    }
}

In your activity, obtain a reference to the WearableListView.OnCenterProximityListener element from your layout, assign an instance of the adapter to populate the list, and set a click listener to complete an action when the user selects a particular list item.

public class WearActivity extends Activity
                          implements WearableListView.ClickListener {

    // Sample dataset for the list
    String[] elements = { "List Item 1", "List Item 2", ... };

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.my_list_activity);

        // Get the list component from the layout of the activity
        WearableListView listView =
            (WearableListView) findViewById(R.id.wearable_list);

        // Assign an adapter to the list
        listView.setAdapter(new Adapter(this, elements));

        // Set a click listener
        listView.setClickListener(this);
    }

    // WearableListView click listener
    @Override
    public void onClick(WearableListView.ViewHolder v) {
        Integer tag = (Integer) v.itemView.getTag();
        // use this data to complete some action ...
    }

    @Override
    public void onTopEmptyRegionClick() {
    }
}