From the course: Android App Development: Working with Widgets
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Other options: Widget host and collections - Android Tutorial
From the course: Android App Development: Working with Widgets
Other options: Widget host and collections
- [Instructor] Let's briefly explore other options that you have available when building out your widgets, which are a bit outside of the scope of this course. The first item are collections. Contrary to what you may think, collections aren't a data offering, but more an offering of views that can handle collections of data. So once you return data from an external service with remote view services, you can leverage three types of views to display your collections. This is what we mean when we say collections with widgets. The three types of views at your disposal are the first one is the listview. This one is for vertical lists of items you can scroll. A good example of this is the Gmail widget. The second one is gridview. This one displays your lists in a scrolling grid-like approach where you can have items listed vertically and horizontally. The bookmarks app widget is a good example. And the third one is stackview where your items are listed in the stack cards approach where you…
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