A common use for a List is the master/detail UI pattern. When the user clicks on an item, it expands, revealing more detail about the item. Previously we’ve shown an example of a List with expanding item renderer. This post demonstrates a similar idea except will scroll items into view as they expand.
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So you want to build a mobile app and tap into the 30+ billion app downloads that are estimated to happen in the next 5 years? Well, one of the first things you’ll have to think about is screen orientation: unlike in a desktop application, the user can rotate the screen through portrait and landscape orientations, both before and while your application is being used. This can be a great thing since your application can take advantage of the different screen dimensions to provide specialized UI but it also means you need to make some decisions about how your app is going to handle these situations.
The default tab bar in a TabbedViewNavigator sizes its buttons to fit them all into the screen at once truncating where necessary. This post demonstrates how to create a custom skin that doesn’t truncate buttons, but instead allows horizontal scrolling to reveal buttons offscreen.
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Evtim and I gave a presentation at Adobe MAX this year that discusses some simple tips for optimizing the performance of item renderers and Views in mobile Flex applications.
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LabelItemRenderer is the default base class for mobile optimized item renderers. It has a single StyleableTextField for a labelDisplay that truncates its text with an ellipsis mark when the text is too large to fit on one line. This post demonstrates how to change that behavior to reflow text onto multiple lines rather than truncate.
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The default behavior of scroll bars in a mobile Scroller is to always hide the scrollbars unless a touch scrolling operation is in effect. This post demonstrates how to customize this behavior so that the scroll bars are always visible. It also demonstrates how to have scrollbars automatically appear at startup then fade away after a short period of time.
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The native iTunes application on iPad has a nice two column item renderer to display song titles and artist names. This post demonstrates how to extend the spark LabelItemRenderer component to achieve this functionality in Flex.
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In a mobile Flex project the default interactionMode is touch. When in this mode drag and drop functionality on the spark List is not supported. This post demonstrates a workaround for adding drag and drop support to your mobile Lists by subclassing IconItemRenderer and dynamically changing the interactionMode on the fly.
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If you drag down from the top of an Android phone, you will get a pull down menu that exposes a set of buttons and options. This is sometimes referred to as a “window shade”, see this video for an example. This post demonstrates how to extend a spark SkinnableContainer to simulate this functionality in a mobile Flex application.
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In a mobile Flex application when you navigate to a new view the old view is destroyed. If you then go back to that first view then it is re-instantiated. If you have a List in that initial view then any scroll position changes the user may have done will be lost. This post demonstrates how to save and restore that scroll position when navigating between views.
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